The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1959 Page: 1 of 14
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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 18
Texas Navy
Coastal Bend
Command
Organized
Decisions which may set a
pattern for the entire state of
Texas were made here Wed-
nesday night when area ad-
mirals of the Texas Navy met
and organized the Coastal
Bend Command, First Flo-
tilla.
Joseph B. Hutchinson of
Houston, a charter member
of the Battleship Texas Com-
mission, was on hand to as-
• sist the local group in setting
np the new organization.
Hutchinson 1jbok an adtive
part in securing the Battle-
ship Texas as a shrine for
Texas. The ship is now
Berthed at the San Jacinto
Battlegrounds.
Last night’s meeting was
the first of its kind to be
held and it is; likely that
‘Other areas may soon take
similar steps. Revival of the
Texas Navy is a pet project
of Gov. Price Daniel to keep
alive Texas’ great heritage
and to promote tourism, in-
dustry, water sports and oth-
er activities. Its members are
pledged to preserve Texas’
'history, boundaries, water re-
sources and civil defense of
the state. The Coastal Bend
Command is the first unit in
^what promises to become a
.statewide organization.
At last night’s session, at-
tended by a dozen local and
area admirals, the following
officers were elected: Capt. J.
R. McWilliams, officer in
. charge; L. E. Ray, executive
officer; Arlin Yeager, treas-
urer; Judge John H. Miller,
secretary; G e h e Webster,
flag officer; and Bill Brown,
liaison officer.
In other action, the group
approved a resolution rec-
ommending to Governor Dan-
iel that the Commodore
Hawkins flag be adopted as
the official flag of the Texas
Navy. The flag has one big
white star on a field of blue
and 13 stripes, seven red and
six white.
Attending in addition to
the above officers' and Mr|
Hutchinson were Mayor Conn
Brown, C. O. Robert and
Earl Sloan,all of Aransas
Pass, and Travis Bailey and
George Miller of Rockport.
The Coastal Bend Com-
mand, First Flotilla, will take
part in the decorated boat
parade in this year’s Shrim-
poree celebration.
Serving the Aransas Pass, Xngleside, and Port Aransas Area
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959
(10 CENTS BY THE SINGLE COPY)
Ingleside, Aransas Pass Districts
School Consolidation
Vote Seen For Oct. 3
MINOR LITTLE LEAGUE WINNERS—The Orioles, managed by Harold Upton,
Doil Kellar and C. A. Hanna, came out on top of the four-team Manor Little League
this season. The Oriole team is composed of (left to right, front row) Robert Baker,
John Santos, Craig Mothershead, Ronny Hanna, bat boy Bubba Kellar, Domingo
Hernandez, Terry Upton, Stanley Upton, Monty Kellar, (left to right, back row)
Harold Upton, Robert Harris, Lloyd Curly, Jessie Aleman, Doil Kellar, Richard
Yardley, Hector Dorsett, and C.i A. Hanna. Three boys not pictured are Willie Es-
quivel, Gary Mayfield and Ray Guidry. In the league, the Athletics and Yankees
tied for second place and the Phillies took third.
Ingleside Little Leaguers Play
Kingsville Nationals Friday
Ingleside’s Little League
All-Stars move into sectional
play Friday afternoon when
they meet the Kingsville Na-
tionals in Kingsville. The
game will begin at 5 o’clock.
After beating the Corpus
We Invite...
We invite to be our guests
at the picture, “Last Train
from Gun Hill,” showing
Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, Aug. 9, 10, 11 and 12,
at the Rialto Theatre, W. G.
Warren and guest.
This notice, clipped from
The Progress, will serve as
your admission.
Rainfall Light
In July, Only
45 Inch Gauged
Rainfall was very light in
July. Weather observer W
C. Hutson reports that only
■45 inch of rain was gauged
during the 31-day period.
From the standpoint of pre-
cipitation, July became the
second lowest month for 1959
March was lowest with .05
inch. Rain was recorded on
five days of the month but
no single reading was over
10 inch.
The month was warm with
temperate readings ranging
consistently into the 90s.
Hurricane Debra, the season’s
fourth tropical storm, struck
the Texas coast around Free-
port but no effects of the
storm were felt here.
July rainfall brought the
year’s total to 17.73 inches.
HEARD...
... plans are being made
for a LIONS CLUB ladies
night on Aug. 26 . . . CAPT.
CARL BROMLEY had an un-
usual accident and suffered
the loss of the first joint of a
finger . . . JIMMY PATTER-
SON’S “Petey Bird” always
finds the way home when he
goes visiting . . . BUNNIE
plans to be through with her
schooling in about two weeks
with the exception of her
thesis . . . approximately 60
children have been attending
the Vacation Church School
each day at the FIRST PRES-
BYTERIAN CHURCH . .
HAZEL RICHMPND fell and
broke her arm . . . the HO-
MER WARRENs really had a
wonderful time on their trip
. ,. CHARLEY KING won an
Apache race car at Bexley’s
... big plans are underway
for the SHRIMPOREE cele-
bration this year . . . LENA
COLE really makes good
German chocolate cake . . ,
the SHELTONs are really
proud of their new grand-
son .. . CARL D. SNYDER,
Rockport science teacher,
showed color slides and gave
an interesting commentary on
Burma at Wednesday’s Lions
Club . . .
A LITTLE GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. EY R. (Jiggs)
Spears are the parents of a
little girl born Wednesday,
July 29 at Spohn Hospital in
Corpus Christi. She weighed
8 pounds and 15 ounces and
has been named Elizabeth
Ann.
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Spears,
Sr., are the paternal grand-
parents and Mr. and Mrs.
Palmer Coward of Antonito,
Colo., are the maternal grand-
parents.
King Shrimporee
Contest Draws
Five Candidates
Five prominent Aransas
Pass men have been nomin-
ated as candidates for King
Shrimporee. They are Johnny
Nelson, Puck O’Neil, A1 Wil-
kerson, Barney Sanders and
Wilson Wehring.
Tommy Summerlin is
sponsoring Nelson; Gone
Webster, last year’s king, will
direct O’Neil’s campaign; A.
N. Garrett is sponsoring Wil- wa*.
kerson; Bill Mobley will han- l net was 78.
Christi National League All
Stars 2-1 on Wednesday of
last week, Ingleside slaugh-
tered the Oil Belt League
All-Stars 12-4 the following
night to earn the shot at sec-
tional play.
Kingsville, a team which
has scored 54 runs to its op-
ponents’ 14 in the playoffs,
defeated Laredo last week
for its tournament berth. 1
Ozzie Outlaw, with two
hits, and Butch Riley with a
two-run homer, led the 7-hit
Ingleside attack against Oil
Belt. Six of the All-Stajrs
broke into the hitting column
and 16 boys went to bat in
the Ingleside half of the big
fifth inning.
Willie Kucera was the win-
ning pitcher, giving up six
hits, one base on balls and
four runs in six: innings. He
struck out two batters.
If Ingleside beats Kings-
ville in the opening game,
they will return to play Har-
lingen in the same park Sat-
urday at 5:00 p. m.
The northern half of the
section, composed of Los An-
geles Heights (San Antonio),
Highland Park (San Antonio),
and Pleasanton, will also hold
sectional games on Friday
and Saturday in San Anto-
nio.
The sectional championship
will be decided at 5 p. m.
Monday, again in Kingsville,
when the winners of the
.northern and southern tour-
naments meet.
Should Ingleside win all
its remaining games, the
team will play in Snyder on
Aug. 13 and 14, for the state
championship; in Norfolk
Va., on Aug. 20, 21 and 22
(regional), and finally in the
World Series of Little League
ball at Williamport, Pa.-, on
Aug. 27 and 28.
Ben Fregia is the manager
of the All-Stars and Dr. J.
E. Habluetzel is assistant
manager.
Inter-City
Golf Tournament
Scheduled
The inter-city golf tourna-
ment has been scheduled for
Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the
Live Oak Country Club. Tee-
off time is set for 9:30 a, m.
A luncheon will be served
in the club house.
Ladies' Day
Marie Wood was first place
winner of the blind hole tour/
nament held July 30 at the
Live Oak Country Club. Low
die Sanders’ campaign; and
Wehring is sponsored by Dr.
R. D. McConchie.
From these five men, by
popular vote, King Shrimp-
oree will be chosen. The win-
ner will be crowned on the
night of Sept. 5, before the
coronation ball and in time
to reign over the beauty re-
vue at which Miss Shrimpo-
ree will be selected. The re-
vue will be sponsored by the
Aransas Pass Jaycee-ettes.
Wehring is a beer distri-
butor and the other three
candidates are associated with
the seafood industry.
Second place winner with
a low net of 79 was Mabel
Spears.
Twelve players participated
in the tournament.
Scoih Foursome
First team winners of the
Scotch foursome played Sun-
day, Aug. 2, were Doris Gar-
rett, Elaine Le Blanc, Flo
Stellman and Jack Shelton
with ten under par.
Vemie Bauknight, Glenda
Holbrook, Mabel Spears and
Speck Howery were second
team winners of the Scotch
foursome with five under
par.
No State Funds
Voted For
Ferry Operation
The new state appropria-
tion bill includes no funds
for operation of the ferries at
Port Aransas, Representa-
tive Harold Parish told The
Progress Wednesday. Parish,
representative from the 35th
Texas district, ha® pressed
for a free road and ferry ser-
vice to the island.
Parish said the appropria-
tion bill as approved by the
house contained funds for op-
eration of free ferries across
the channel between Harbor
Island and Mustang Island.
But the funds which were
contained in the highway de-
partment section and would
have come out of highway
department funds were
stricken in the appropriation
bill approved by the senate.
Parish said the ferry op-
eration funds failed to get
Senate approval in spite of
vigorous, efforts by himself
and the Corpus Christi dele-
gation in the legislature. He
blamed Senator William S.
Fly’s lack of interest in the
project for its failure. Fly is
chairman of the joint con-
ference committee.
A bill must go through
both houses, Parish said, and
it has little chance of pas-
sage if it lacks the support
of the district’s senator.
In earlieir discussions, it*
was indicated that with the
new free thoroughfare to
Harbor Island the ferries
would be operated at a fee
of 25 cents per car. However,
Parish said the Nueces coun-
ty commissioners recently ap-
peared before the highway
commission and asked that
the fee be made 50 cents a
car.
Parish said diming this ses-
sion the legislature passed a
resolution authorizing the
federal government to es-
tablish a national seashore
area on South Padre Island.
He said he felt that about
four million dollars would
be earmarked for improve-
ment of the area and that it
appeared likely that in con-
nection with the national
seashore development a road
would be built down the is-
land. It was my hope, he
stated, that we could have a
free thoroughfare between
Aransas Pass and Port Aran-
sas and that this route would
serve as an entrance to the
south Padre seashore area.
At a
joint meeting held at
Little Bob’s Tuesday night,
trustees of the Ingleside and
Aransas Pass Independent
School Districts ironed out
details before petitioning
County Judge William E.
Nicholas for a consolidation
School Clothes
Asked For Needy
The Aransas Bass Associ-
ated Charities is in need of
clothes to outfit needy child-
ren for the start of school.
Mrs. Pearl Hosek, who de-
votes much of her time to
working with and helping the
local underprivileged, has
compiled a list of the fami-
lies needing clothing. The
breakdown lists both boys
and girls by age groups. She
said clothing is needed for
all school-age children but
that the demand is greatest
among the lower ages.
Persons having serviceable
clothing which may be of
help to the needy children
are asked to leave them at
Cage-Marshall Funeral Home
or phone Mrs. Hosek, Ingle-
side 71J, and they will be
picked up.
election to be held Oct. 3.
The new district will be
known as the Ingleside-Aran-
sas Pass Independent School
District, if voters in the two
districts approve the consol-
idation.
The site of the new high
school will be at a point mu-
tually acceptable to the trus-
tees of both boards.
If consolidation is ap-
proved, the board for the
combined district will be
made up of four members
from the Aransas Pass board
and three from the Ingleside
board.
Richard D. Hatch, attorney
representing both school dis-
tricts, has discussed with
Farm Census
Field Assistant
Named for Area
Appointment of Comer E.
Kidd of Route 1, Harlingen,
Texas, as a field assistant for
the 1959 Census of Agricul-
ture was announced today*
by the Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.
Mr. Kidd will direct a
force of 23 crew leaders and
328 census takers in 47 coun-
ties in South Texas. San Pa-
tricio and Aransas counties
are included in the area in
which Mr. Kidd will super-
vise the farm census this
fall.
Mr. Kidd will enter on duty
on Aug. 12 and receive sev-
eral days training which will
cover administrative proced-
ures and other duties and re-
sponsibilities connected with
the job. He will be respon-
sible for recruiting the crew
leaders who in turn will re-
cruit the census takers.
Crew leaders who will have
charge1 of the farm census in
the 13 counties in the south-
ern part of the area will en-
ter on duty on Sept. 14 with
the census takers starting on
Oct. 7. Crew leaders for the
remaining counties of the
area will enter on duty on
September 21 and the cen-
sus takers in these counties
will enter on duty on Oct. 14.
The 1959 Census of Agri-
culture will collect informa-
tion on the number and size
of farms, acreage and harvest
of crops, livestock production
and inventories, selected farm
facilities, selected farm ex-
penditures, farm values, and
mortgage debt. Information
will be published for coun-
ties, states, and for the na-
tion.
United Fund
Membership
Meets Tonight
The annual membership
meeting of the Aransas Pass
United Fund will be held to-
night at Lone Star Park
Building starting at 7:30
o’clock, President J. F. Lof-
tin has announced. Loftin
urged all members and others
interested in United Fund to
attend tonight’s meeting.
One matter of business will
be the election of board
members and officers to serve
for the 1959-60 fund year.
A meeting of the board will
fee held immmediately fol-
lowing the general member-
ship meeting. The United
Fund is completing its sec-
ond year of operation in Ar-
ansas Pass.
Senator William Fly of Vic-
toria and Representative Har-
old Parish of Taft the possi-
bility of having legislation
enacted at the special session
setting up two voting pre-
cincts in the consolidated dis-
trict. This legislation would
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Report On
Cancer Fund
Drive Here
In a house to house canvas
here the past few weeks,
Mrs. R. D. Hatch, chairman,
announced that' $517.07 Was
raised for the cancer fund.
In the business district only
$25.00 was raised.
Mrs. Hatch stated that do-
nations will still be taken to
the fund if there are people
or businesses that were not
contacted. Donations may be
mailed to her as no further
canvas will be made.
L/C HARVEY LANG-
HAM left Monday for San
Diego, Calif., where he will
be stationed with the Ma-
rine Corps. Langham, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Col-
lins, Aransas Pass, recently
completed twelve months
training in Kodiac, Alaska,
and has been home on leave
for thirty days.
Mrs. W. M. Gray
Buried Monday
Funeral services for Mrs.
Willie Mae Gray, 83, were
held Monday at the— First
First Methodist Church here
with the Rev. Bill Arnold,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, officiating. Burial
was in Prairie View Ceme-
tery under direction of Cage-
Marshall Funeral Home.
Mrs. Gray died Saturday
afternoon at the family res-
idence here. She had been a
resident here since 1927 and
was a member of the First
Methodist Church.
She is survived by two sis-
ters, Mrs. E. L. Burgan and
Mrs. Ethel Speer, both of
Aransas Pass; a brother, A.
N. Nelson of San Saba; one
grandson and one great-
grandson.
Program of Events Listed For
Annual Shrimporee Sept. 4-6
Final plans have been laid
for the Annual Aransas Pass
Shrimporee, according to Bill
Brown, manager of the
Chamber of Commerce and
Shrimporee general chair-
man, who said that one of
the highlights of the celebra-
tion September 4-6 will be a
review of Texas admirals
and their fleet by Gov. Price
Daniel.
C. O. Robert, fleet admiral,
and Admirals Larry Ray,
J. R. McWilliams, Conn
Brown, Arlin Yeager, Pat
Kindle and dinghy boy Gene
Webster will have charge of
this part of the program
NEW MOTEL TAKING SHAPE—Traveler Motor Hotel, new tourist facility un-
der construction at the Y on North Commercial, is taking shape. The 46-unit two-
story luxury motel is being built by Gene L. Durbin, L. S. Wood and Gilbert Ed-
wards. Construction started in May and the motel, which fronts 225 feet on Com-
mercial, is due to be completed in September. It will have a swimming pool, and
all units will be air conditioned, carpeted and equipped with telephone and tele-
vision. Excavation for the swimming pool started this week.
along with other ranking ad-
mirals in the Texas Navy
fleet.
The three-day event starts
Friday night, Sept. 4, at 7:30
o’clock, with a football game
between the Aransas Pass
Panthers and the Ingleside
Mustangs. This will be fol-
lowed by a street dance, for
which Wilson Wehring, Lone
Star distributor, is furnish-
ing the orchestra. Jack John-
son is the chairman of this
event and the Aransas Pass
Jaycees and Jaycee-Ettes are
in charge of the concessions.
Saturday morning, Sept. 5,
at 9 o’clock, is the Cyclecade,
at which youngsters of Aran-
sas Pass, on gaily decorated
bicycles, will vie for prizes.
Entertainment provided for
this part of the program in-
cludes a dog act under aus-
pices of Fuzzy, driver of the
famous Lone Star Pony
Stagecoach, which has en-
deared itself to thousands of
Texas children. This portion
of the program is in charge
of police officer Durwood
Kennedy and policewoman
Mrs. Dorothy Baldinell. m
Five bands have said they
would take part this year
with several more to be heard
from. The Cnavantra Band,
from Corpus Christi Naval
Air Station, which has been
a feature of past parades, will
See "SHRIMPOREE" P. 8
provide for three trustees to
be elected from the Ingle-
side precinct and four from
the Aransas Pass precinct,
guaranteeing each commun-
ity continued representation!
cn the school boards of . the
future.
According to board presi-
dents W. E. Boehnke and Dr.
J. M. Auten, of Aransas Pass
and Ingleside respectively,
this action has been taken
only after thorough investi-
gation of all angles of the
consolidation by both boards.
The investigation was prompt-
ed by a desire of all the trus-
tees to furnish better high
school facilities for students
in both communities at a
lower cost than if each built
its own plant.
Attorney Hatch was joint-
ly instructed by the two
boards to prepare the nec-
essary petitions to be pre-
sented to Judge Nicholas,
calling for an election on
Oct. 3.
In a statement issued by
the two board presidents, they
said:
“The trustees have investi-
gated thoroughly, and the
boards are satisfied that con-
solidation will work for the
best interests of everyone.
■Through this election we are
now leaving it to the good
judgment of voters in the in-
dividual districts to decide.”
Present from Ingleside be-
sides Auten were trustees
Jack Hudlow, Stephen Park-
er, F. L. Baldwin, Leroy
Fritz, and School Superin-
tendent O. T. Blaschke.
Other trustees from Aran-
sas Pass besides Boehnke
were Charlie Marshall, Dr.
E. E. Dimaline, Dr. N. H.
Kirkham, T. D. Crow and
Larry Ray, and School Supt.
A. A. Ericson and Business
Manager L. R. Nedbalek.
Mrs. King*, 80,
Dies Friday
Mrs. George W. King, 80,
died Friday at her home here
after a long illness. She was
a long-time resident of this
community and a member of
the Christian Science Church.
She is survived by her
husband and two sons, John-
ny and Lynn, all of Aransas
Pass; a daughter, Mrs. Dor-
othy Lynn of Sherman Oaks,
Calif.; seven grandchildren
and twelve great-grandchild-
ren.
Speeding is the main
fault of teenage drivers in
accidents, National Safety
Council records show.
SEEN..
. . W. T. Saleh wearing
a pretty shirt sent him by his
daughter in Hawaii . . . ED-
ITH mailing a package of ex-
pensive beans to Pat and
Jimmy . . LUCILE SMITH
working on a pretty little
baby quilt . . . TILLIE nurs-
ing a bad case of poison ivy
. a very good collection
of slides of the DON FOWL-
ERs . . . LEOLA going home
after a hard day at the office
FANNIELOU waiting on
the steps for Glenn ... DR.
BOURNS black with soot
after a fire last week . V .
MARGARET taking off on a
vacation trip ., . MARY mak-
ing plans for a style show
. . the BLAYLOCKs leaving
for a vacation at Mathis lake
ANNETTE WOOD play-
ing games with the little tots
on the church lawn . . . NED
working hard while MAR-
GIE is on vacation ... RUBY,
GRACE and ESTHER lunch-
ing together at the drug
store . . . MILDRED and
PHILIP in a tizzy over wed-
ding plans -. . . a card from
Rock Springs, Wyo.^ from
JEANETTE and WILLIS
PERKINS saying that they
are having a wonderful time
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