The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1959 Page: 1 of 12
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DOWN WE C0-—With this blimp-shaped vessel, “Trieste,” scientists hope to probe deeper
yet into the ocean’s canyons. Designed by French deep sea experts Auguste and Son Jacques
Piccard, the device is being lifted onto a freighter at San Diego, Calif., for a voyage to the 35.000-
foot Marianas Trench in the Pacific.
Five Committees Appointed
By Chamber of Commerce
Five committees to spear-
head Chamber of Commerce
projects were appointed last
Thursday night at a regular
meeting of the chamber di-
rectors. Committees formed
were beautification, retail
trade, nominating, tourist re-
lations and development, and
highway and public works.
Mrs. Lillie Richardson was
appointed chairman of the
beautification committee.
Other members are Mrs. Conn
Brown, Mrs. J. R. Barry, Mrs.
Emory Brown, A. A. Ericson,
Fred P. Robbins and Rev.
Bill Arnold.
One of the committee’s first
actions will be a study of the
beautification of Harrison
Boulevard. At the request of
the Chamber of Commerce,
the city has agreed to pipe
water to the islands which
divide the two-way thorough-
fare. The lack of water has
thwarted several attempts at
beautification of the parkway
in the past, and with water
available it should not be a
difficult matter to develop
the boulevard into an attrac-
tive approach to the down-
town area. Chamber Manager
Bill Brown said considerable
interest has been expressed
in beautification of the drive
and he suggested that the
project might be accomplish-
ed by allocating responsibility
for maintenance of individual
sections to local clubs or in-
dividuals.
A retail trade committee
was appointed with Mrs. Ed-
ith Howery, chairman. Other
committee members are
Moreland Bexley, Jack Ad-
ams and Wayne Pruitt.'
Among other duties, the
committee will make recom-
mendations aimed at estab-
lishing uniform holiday clos-
ings for Aransas Pass mer-
chants.
Appointed to the nominat-
ing committee were Martin
Haskett, chairman, Mrs. Lena
HEARD...
. . . RUBY PATTON re-
ceived a beautiful mink stole
and a dozen pink roses from
HENRY on their wedding an-
niversary Tuesday . . . MR.
afid MRS. B. E. OLIVE will
celebrate a wedding anniver-
sary Thursday, Nov. 26 . . .
little CHRISTINE TAYLOR
was born on her Uncle Adams
Henry’s birthday, Nov. 16 . . .
BILL ALLEN, DUB TOL-
LETT and party are deer
hunting this week . . . BILL
BROWN of the local Cham-
ber of Commerce is looking
for a girl to enter in the Maid
of Cotton National Beauty
Contest. She must be 5 feet,
6 inches tall or over, single
and between the ages of 19
and 26 ... ELDAGENE NAY-
LOR and KRISTIN ERICSON
will fly home today for the
Thanksgiving holidays . . .
A&I COLLEGE STUDENTS
got out a day early for the
Thanksgiving holidays . . .
BILL and FRANCES went to
Falfurrias Saturday . . . ETH-
EL is going to Houston today
to meet Henry . . . Mayor
CONN BROWN is on the sick
list this week . . .
Cole and L. E. Ray. Five new
directors and two replace-
ments for the 15-member
board are to be selected in an
annual directors election
scheduled between Dec. 15
and Jan. 15. New directors
are elected for three-year
terms.
Gene Durbin was named
chairman of the tourist rela-
tions and development com-
mittee. Other members are
L. W. Morgan, J. H. Loftin
and L. W. Shannon.
Jimmy Thwing heads the
highway and public works
committee which also in-
cludes Arlin Yeager, Frank
Gathright, Mayor Conn
Brown, Cecil Miller and F.
K. Lytle.
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THANKSGIVING GUESTS
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tate
and family of Swinney will
be guests here during the
Thanksgiving holidays of Mrs.
Minnie Jordan in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George Bartlett.
Miss Sandy Bartlett, a stu-
dent at Sam Houston State
Teachers College, will also
spend the holidays here with
her parents.
Early Edition
This Week
Due to the Thanksgiv-
ing day holiday, The
Progress is being pub-
lished a day early this
week. The newspaper will
come out Wednesday aft-
ernoon instead of the us-
ual Thursday afternoon.
The newspaper 1 office
will be closed all day
Thursday in order that
Progress employees may
enjoy the holiday with
their families.
We are grateful to ad-
vertisers and news con-
tributors whose coopera-
tion helped make the ear-
ly publication possible.
First Christian
Church Has
New Pastor
Rev. H. D. Crone is now
pastor of the First Christian
Church. He and his wife
moved, here this week from
Sour Lake, Texas, where he
has pastored for two years.
The new pastor and Mrs.
Crone have three married
children.
Rev. Crone has served as
field man for Juliett Fowler
Homes for three years and he
also was pastor at Rockdale,
Texas, for 14 years.
Aransas Pass
Band Receives
No. 1 Rating
Aransas Pass High School
Band participated in the Re-
gion 7 band marching com-
petition in Falfurrias Satur-
day, and received a I rating.
More than 1,300 students rep-
resenting 26 South Texas
high schools took part in the
contest.
Adan Salazar, Falfurrias
band director and chairman
of the Region 7 contest, said
no individual or team wiftners
were selected. He said all
teams were judged on band
marching requirements set by
the Texas Interscholastic
League.
Ratings in Class AA schools
were Aransas Pass, rating, I;
Sinton, rating I; Taft, rating
II; Premont, rating III; San
Diego, rating III, and Hebbro-
ville, rating IV.
The local band is directed
by Jimmy Luigi and consists
of ninety members.
Traffic Will Start Using
Dale Miller Bridge Monday
Traffic to and from Harbor
Island and Port Aransas .will
start using the new Dale Mil-
ler Bridge Monday, it was
announced this week.
J. A. DeMauri, superintend-
ent for Cage Brothers, general
contractors on the causeway,
said Tuesday that tentative
plans call for routing traffic
over the new approach and
high bridge Monday. The traf-
fic will return to the old
causeway a short distance
east of the Dale Miller Bridge
and will use the existing
causeway from there to Har-
bor Island.
Sinton Advances,
Plays Freer
Friday in Alice
The Sinton Pirates, cham-
pions of District 31AA, remain
in the state race after edging
the favored Edcouch-Elsa
Yellowjackets 30-28 Friday
night in a bi-district contest
at Mercedes. The Yellowjack-
ets represented District 32AA.
On the same evening, Ar-
ansas County High School,
representing District 30A, was
eliminated 32-6 by Kenedy
of District 29A.
Sinton meets Freer at Alice
Friday night in the second
round of the class AA play-
offs. Freer advanced by de-
feating Hondo 26-14 last
week.
Kenedy and Bishop meet at
Beeville Friday night in the
second round of thje area
Class A playoffs. Bishop
whacked Rio Hondo 46-14 in
a bi-district game Friday
night.
—--o-
TONSILLECTOMY
Mrs. Joe Wood underwent
a tonsillectomy in Aransas
Hospital this week.
“SINK THE ARMY”—New mascot for the U.S, Naval Acad-
emy, “Billy XVI,” gets spruced up for presentation to the
middies. Beauty treatment takes place in Dallas, Tex., on the
pedigreed Angora, who replaces one which died recently.
Ministerial Alliance Schedules
Special Thanksgiving Service
A special community First Methodist Church with
Thanksgiving .service, spon- the Rev. John Troy Vaughn,
sored by the Ministerial Alii- pastor of the Church of Our
ance, will be held tonight Saviour, Episcopal, bringing
(Wednesday) at 7:30 at the the message.
Rev. Dale Hasson, host pas-
tor, will preside at the ser-
vice. Others taking part will
be Rev. Bill Arnold, First
Baptist Church; Dr. Chalmers
G. Long, First Presbyterian
Church; and Rev. J. A. Al-
lard, Assembly of God.
Music will be furnished by
the First Methodist choir.
The Crimemobile, sponsored by the Texes Law Enforcement Foundation, Is a 50-foot roll-
ing classroom of scientific crime detection devices. The unit is touring the state to demon-
strate modem crime fighting tools used by law enforcement forces. All exhibits are free.
The Crimemobile will visit Aransas Pass Monday, Nov. 30, and will remain on lo-
cation all day in front of the Rialto Theatre. Its local visit is timed to coincide with
the showing at the Rialto of the popular picture, F. B. I. Story.
Visitors to the Texas Law Enforcement Foundation Crimemobile view such exhibits as
the lie-detector, a police gun display, a drunkometer, ballistic microscopes, and the X-ray
machine. Wall pictures show Texas crime fighters in action protecting citizens of the
state.
Literary Study
Group May Be
Organized Here
Raymond Johnson, of Dal-
las, Southwest Area director
of The Great Books Founda-
tion, will be in Aransas Pass
on Dec. 9, 10 and 11 to or-
ganize a first-year discussion
group. The meetings will be
held at the Kieberger Cafe-
teria from 7 to 9 p. m.
Since 1947, when the Great
Books Foundation was incor-
porated in Chicago as a non-
profit organization, groups of
15 to 25 persons in communi-
ties from coast to coast have
been meeting to discuss books
written by Plato, Tolstoy,
Thoreau, and others.
The discussion groups meet
every two weeks and discuss
a new work at each meeting.
The books deal with basic
problems; the problem of jus-
tice, happiness, morality, gov-
ernment, the nature of man.
There is on tuition, and no
special educational back-
ground is reuired.
Participants may supply
their own books, borrow them
from a friend or from the li-
brary, or purchase inexpens-
ive paper-bound editions from
the Foundation.
All persons interested in
exchanging ideas and in live-
ly, stimulating discussion
should come to the first meet-
ing, Dec. 9, The Declaration of
Independence will be dis-
cussed and copies will be sup-
plied at the meeting.
Pamphlets giving additional
information may be picked
up at the Chamber of Com-
merce.
We Invite...
We invite to be our guests
at the picture, “The F. B. I,
St o r y,” showing Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, Nov. 29 and 30, and
Dec. 1 and 2, at the Rialto
Theatre, H. E. Chisum and
guest.
This notice, clipped from
The Progress, will serve as
wmif admisaifin
Sunday Services
To Be Held At
First Christian
Announcement was made
by the Rev. H. D. Crone, new
pastor of the First Christian
Church, that Sunday morning
at the 11 o’clock worship ser-
vice, he will speak on the
“Go Getter Church.”
His topic for the evening
service at 7:30 o’clock will be
“A Popular Hero.”
A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to get acquainted with
the new pastor.
Panther Grid
Lettermen
Announced
Coach Jack McElhannon
Tuesday announced the let-
termen from the 1959 Panther
football squad. The list in-
cluded 14 seniors, eight ju-
niors and three sophomores.
Those receiving letters
were as follows: Norman
Spears, senior, 3 years, back;
Butch Witt, senior, 2 years,
back; Howard Williams, se-
nior, 1 year, guard; Clarence
Price, junior, 1 year, back;
Steve Brewster, senior, 1 year,
back; David Bayless, junior,
1 year, back.
Rudy Johnson, senior, 2
years, back; Billy Chandler,
1 senior, 1 year, back; Ronny
Durbin, junior, 2 years, back;
Frank Kelly, sophomore, 1
year, center; Bryan Reynolds,
senior, 1 year, tackle; Jerre
Yoder, senior, 2 years, cen-
ter; George WarfOrd, Senior,
2 years, guard.
Tommy Peterson, junior, 2
years, tackle; Skipper White,
junior, 1 year, tackle; David
McConchie, senior, 3 years,
guard; Clarence Suyres, ju-
nior, 2 years, tackle; Tillman
Callaway, senior, 1 year,
tackle; Kenneth Farrier, so-
phomore, 1 year, tackle.
Lloyd Shirley, sophomore,
1 year, tackle; Wallace Cady,
junior, 1 year, end; Jimmy
Pridgen, junior, i year, end;
Skipper Vaughan, senior, 1
year, end; Jimmy Cheaney,
senior, 1 year, center; Ray-
mond Olivares, senior, 2
years, end.
Letters also went to man-
agers Paul Dye, Earnest
Greer and Douglas Bishop.
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NEW ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Ed-
wards of Ingleside announce
the birth of a son in Aransas
Hospital Nov. 25. He weighed
7 pounds and 14 ounces and
has been named Mark Allen.
Mostlocal Firms Will Close
For Thanksgiving Observance
Business will be at a near
standstill here Thursday as
the majority of local firms
will be closed in observance
of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Only a few places will remain
open.
Closed for the day will be
the bank, city hall offices,
utility company offices, and
most downtown retail estab-
lishments. The Progress is
being published a day early
this week and the newspaper
office and plant will be closed
Thanksgiving Day. -
The post office will also ob-
serve the holiday. Postmaster
Warren Howery said there
will be no window service nor
home delivery Thursday, but
the morning mail will be
placed in the postoffice boxes.
Schools will dismiss Wed-
nesday afternoon and remain
closed until Monday morning.
Many local families are
looking forward to having
their college students home
for the long weekend. A&I
students, who received an ex-
tra day off for Thanksgiving
holidays, started arriving
home Tuesday night.
A snpeifil Thanksgiving
service, sponsored by the Ar-
ansas Pass Ministerial Alli-
ance, will be held tonight at
the First Methodist Church.
Traffic is being detoured
over the bridge in order that
work can be started disman-
tling the old causeway, lower-
ing pipelines and raising util-
ity lines to permit dredging
of the alternate route of the
Intracosastal Canal. The con-
tract is due to be let soon on
completion of the channel
from the Aransas Pass-Port
Aransas tributary channel
south to the Ransom Island
Channel. That portion of the
waterway was not included
in the original dredging con-
tract.
The fact that traffic is be-
ing routed over a portion of
the new causeway does not
mean that the thoroughfare
is complete—only that it is
usable on the Aransas Pass
end. The earthen fill has been
made from the seawall to a
junction with East Goodnight
and the shell base was being
applied this week. DeMauri
said a temporary road will
connect the new roadway
with the old causeway a short
distance east of the high
birdge.
C. S. Parsons, superintend-
ent for the causeway opera-
tion, said a toll gate will be
set up east of the bridge. Toll
rates will remain unchanged,
he stated.
The detour was earlier
scheduled for use some weeks
ago but wet weather delayed
construction of the approach
between the seawall and East
Goodnight.
DeMauri said the causeway
job is well ahead of schedule.
He estimated that the project
will be 50 per cent complete
by the end of November. We
expect to finish the bulk of
work by the end of the year,
he said, but certain phases
will not be completed until
some time next year.
He estimated that 75 per
cent of the first course of
shell has been applied but
pointed out that the roadway
gets a second application of
shell equal to the first. The
shell will be mixed with cal-
iche and sand to form the
road base. The base will prob-
ably be finished by the end
of the year but the applica-
tion of the asphalt surface
must await warm weather, he
said.
DeMauri estimated that 60
per cent of the concrete rip-
rap which is being poured
around the bridges and as
shoulder protection along
much of the thoroughfare is
now in place. The riprap is
presently being poured at the
rate of about a thousand yards
a week.
The contractor has also in-
stalled storm drain tile along
east Goodnight from Com-
mercial to near the seawalL
The causeway contract also
includes installation of curb
and gutter and repaving of
Goodnight from Commercial
to Railroad street. i
Bids Asked For
Port Aransas
Mail Delivery
Sealed bids will be ac-
cepted at the office of the
Distribution and Traffic Man-
ager, Post Office Department,
P. O. Box 2258, Fort Worth,
Texas, until 3 p. m., Dec. 2,
1959, for carrying the United
States mail one round trip
daily between post office Ar-
ansas Pass and post office,
Port Aransas, a one-way dis-
tance of 7.63 miles.
Any causeway fee or ferry
toll is to be paid by the con-
tractor, and should be taken
into consideration when sub-
mitting bid.
Further information and
bid forms may be obtained
from Warren Howery, Aran-
sas "Pace nnstmaefat*
SEEN...
. . . DOIL TURNER’S dog,
Lady, carrying a bank depos-
it to the bank . .. D. C. HOL-
DER run out of gas at a con-
venient spot . . . two young
ladies sharing a drink while
walking down the street . . .
NED sweeping his sidewalk
early in the morning . . .
GEORGE ELIZONDO leading
a three-truck caravan into
town from Springfield, Ohio
. . . the PALMER COWARDs
back in town for the winter
. . . JEANNETTE up town
wearing a pretty lavender at-
tire . . . EDITH picking up a
couple of friends for a lun-
cheon date... WINNIE wear-
ing a pretty hair do . . .
Frank DE LA ROSA present-
ing The Progress staff with a
delicious box of candy . . .
large catches of fish being
brought in by fishermen this
week . .. college students ar-
riving home for the Thanks-
giving Holidays ... a pretty
ivy plant grown by Elton ...
GENIE WEBSTER up and
about after a long bout with
pneumonia ...
Serving1 the Aransas Pass, Ingleside, and Port Aransas Area
VOLUME 51—NUMBER 34
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1959
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1959, newspaper, November 26, 1959; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975438/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.