Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 9

Sunday, January 27, 1946 VALLEY MORNING STAR San Benito Hospital Is Named For Lt. Wilma Vinsant SAN BENITO Dolly iniiiit nal Hospital if the name that be lettered ibwe the entrance to the hospital Sun Bern tans will establ on the block recently purchased for this purpose from A M.r.ta Hervey. Cort of the site, and equipment will be about I1O9M0 Herts ton fa name the hospital in memory of toe flight rtume, 1st Lt IT Vinsant reached at a meeur.ii the temporary hospital corner ittee and other Interested citinm Jan. It but mtmmmemmmi was withheld until permission way from her husband. Major O'Shea, and her parents.

Ira. Wm Vinsant. I this week an- the croup action that ivs recall to a host of the petite flaxen-haired tost her life because refrain from other dan- ssions to evacuate after completing f. of flights evpected of her Her commanding officer ob- iecled to the flight that cost her A Walter Bet ita gift would ed me ji that 4 had completed the Howe of responsibility ured men was so When her she was it was with the this Is to be from direct Adwrt iMrment present landscaping as much as eluded two from the Dawson. Charles Bowie.

A. M. Her- becurs, flower shows, street dances, possible. The palms lining the cir- Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions Clubs, vey, C. D.

Oakes. Brad Mason. Wal- rumma. salts, automobile cular driveway have been familiar and the Elks lodge. The hospital ter Hardy, W.

Housewright. Dr, on page 12) to San Benito school children for committee or group was Scales LeeRoy Crawford, 'three generations. Recent purchase composed of active leaders who Dr. Haas, Andrew Bowie. Rudy of the property for the hospital site will carry on until directors to be Bendixen, John Benson, Paul Hill, transferred an area 200x314 feet, named in the state charter have J.

G. McCandless. John Prentiss. The owners retained a 100-foot strip been appointed. Application is being J.

W. Spradley, A A Thompson. the back including the Polonaise made for a charter naming 12 dt- Alex Bowie, and R. Collins. Apartments, but the hospital holds rectors.

Two each will be named Whether or not the old Hey wood an option to purchase this property, from the sponsoring service clubs will be razed completely or Site Rraaonahlv Priced and the Elks Lodge and four will remodeled as part of a permanent Member, of hosnital commit. communities adjacent to hospital structure will be determm- noTonly 88,1 reconunenda.ion, have dirt Mr. and Mrs. Hervev put an ex- Crawford headed the executive been received from The centionallv reisoii orice on the committee of the community hos- San Antonio firm of Phelps but thev made a generous and clinic as chairman. Mem- wees and Simmons has made a bers are A.

Mason, A. M. Bill tentative agreement with the hos- Hervey. C. D.

Oakes. McCand- pital committee to survey the build- project John Benson, W. Spradley, ing and site. Leaders in the hospital Rudy Bendixen, and W. G.

Plaisted. project have emphasized their in- Thev spearheaded several other tention of adopting a building plan active committees that have been that will provide for future ex zealous in behalf of the hospital perhaps to eventually cover project. the entire block. Name I nanimously Selected Raising the $50,000 in cash, now Members of the hospital commit- in the bank, for the hospital fund that a clinic be established for the tee and other interested townspeo- has been astonishingly easy, nearly benefit of underprivileged children pie attended the Jan. 16 meeting in everyone associated with the received such enthusiastic response Charles office, when it was ject will admit.

There is not one that it was decided other service unanimously decided to honor the organization or group that has not clubs in San Benito could share in memory of Dolly Vinsant in naming played a large share in obtaining planning and financing and a hos- the hospital, provided the sugges- funds. Each club more pital with larger scope for service tion was approved by her family, than met its pledge of $500 and the could be built. Present for the meeting were Ever- Aurora Literary Club turned in ov- Tlie original executive board in- ett Russell, Felix Gay, Dr. C. D.

er $1100. Dinners, box suppers, bar- personal contribution to the hospital fund. Growth of the hospital been one of the most noteworthy demonstrations of co-operation in San Benito community life The movement started under the leadership of Lee Roy Crawford who was then lieutenant-governor for this Kiwanis District. His suggestion in an European Theater as a remit of enemy action and it three who lout their entire theater rfMt: of enemv action IS by the queen Bans of the real danger involved in her bom 'San Benito and work, and of her probable distreat to womanhood, a dainty. ministering to the men in her uNp of a girl who always charge.

she said nothing She had with a lilt, if life were entire charge of men being evacu- to be in her plane. No doctor was aboard. Not only did she make er tin San Benito High jnto battle areas, but "he flew arid Browrtaville Junior Col- from England to New York in er friends sought to dis- with evacuated wounded ce when derided to who in her sole charge. Neier Krceixed l.eate was to arduom a deheate a It dunng a few of babyhood name of that was able to telephone probably because Parents leaves did not beyond' five feet allow time for a visit home -and merrr smile that was their last audible with her, A personal citation front Presi Site of Dolly Vinsa nt Memorial Hospital the tuM usiysdi1 wltt" physique Her She gte rnr lost Npr her greeting for everyone. Sbe became a romaittlc figuie and a posthumously Ns Benito gar Is after her gradua- dent Truman from Joton Seal.y College of award were I Ckilvestan because she sen.ed.

one of the first the Valley There Is something particularly aeeome an air hostess For a satisfying to longtime San Beni tans ear and a half she served as in the linking of the memory of Biansff Ai.rways, the brave young nurse with the Sne enlisted in the Army Nurse background associated with the Sept 1, IMS Within short late Col. Alba Hey wood and his me she Qualified for admission to family, fiirw-ftilly picked air evacuation To many in San Benito the She graduated from vey home is still known tltr old krwif Air Forces School of Heywood place. Situated at the at Bowman Field, center back of an entire bhwk, it Ma'frh 11, IMS and wen! to been a landmark tor 40 thereafter. nears and is one of the beauty spot.6 wrote glowingly of many of of the entire community tef eapenetnces there in ttie hcrspital ei'id ng be u( receded with other it is their plan to preserve the Zapata Citizens Do Not Want City To Be Inundated Coniimssd page County 1 ob several well developed oil Escovas a the or An(f Redondo beuig among tiie main attract of the producers at the present Guerrero-Zapata area onder Others are in the makinn will also go under rif fhew days Zapata iv mill ibmerge Za- Countv will be one of the great oil one of the prettiest of xexaF yhat Li. Wilma Vinsant he -T-V diction of oil men ami inter- no crystal ball reading by the writer.

North Mexico 111 and the need sr brt ge coins i cted a' ve In 1930, will cease, for the main att.rarti.on that construction the tops of which hostile sa There are in County tt I pc bv almost eleitioti: Ttse or county, an and kept their lookmits for enemies in the davs hmg and from the targe numbers of arrow found in the valleys between the hills one is convinced that here many battles were between warlike Coahuflans and the timid Carriros The first named tribe were here before the Carricos, as determined by Indian expert and gradually drifted west and north until they became what we call today the Navaio Indians of Mexico and Arizona. The poorer ami war-hke Carriros remained in the villages until the time of Don Porfino Dias when they were removed to a reservation on the Meairan side of the river st Juntas at the confluence of the Salado and the Rio Grande and there their very dark descendants live to this day. They have intermarried, of course until thev are known as Mexicans, but one who the history of the section and us people knows that ate almost hi toast party many of the residents of the until American side of the river and Za- ago when the has its fair share of Indian were tak- descendants above everything and now elae are strong believers in home Demo- rule. Some years ago. when the state, county, federal government issued an order live placing Mexican Johnnv Rath- on the list of dutiabh' farmer, is the goods whicti made it almost pro- fidffiC Idea tlf Itrtdgr is well known Valley men kir the sunshine and os1 mg with fish lines In the rig water of the cascada sirred to one of them that i a bridge connecting i Guerrero would he a I proportion due to the st- of the falls So they 1 1 and thev built the id it is today, a monu- to one dream It has pa id dividend and some sold to the people nf i and Guerrero for a son.g¡ tin history, Zapata the distinction of bee only Mil idly Republican In Tea as In national always went Republican ft a The Refi a strong.baid of Zapata to ith the death of who went to Zapata rlv dav as a cus- became snd then county the Repuhl a predicai many iudge He ou re bloods blood eler the old narty in i and in the sears be- there are of eotirse, Oui Jolin 1 the Ite- Irritate Oeps about HH sear's ounty as among the to this area There dcssfr lopcncnt and sons and daughtt content to se incemee front as their futh hibitive to impon tlie much-loved confection When the announcement was broadcast the wooers of Zapata county met yi solemn conclave arai ol tit tons condemning the federal government and that tin most midrr be set aside and permitted to enter duty fiee and its miiabi- unrestrained When the customs i of Span- refunsd to complv with the mandate the their cattle wrre nonplussed and never and ereat convinced that their ruling wasn't Za- grandfaHhtfi before them had done for nearly 3Mt years.

But the irri-. There are many fine homes in gatHHi bitten ttiem and Zapata, comfortable homes, Zapata among the big and well no doubt, -u ci 4 inties of Texas but they can be rebuilt or It growing into' one of the to higher ground. Tlie courthousc, counties If and church and several smaller the dam at Falcon is con- mgs, over a half a dozen st artd an everlasting source of stone and brick will have of water is provided ranch lands to remain here they are arid be tfist are now pructieaHy worthless come at last but a memory and st as farm will one day be un- lent monuments marking the spot tier mionifve as fruit where once a lovable village nest-" and lands fnr in Za- led between the ancient hills, the 1E' if: titat of site of an old Indian village aiws: ttie i alley, made lands, the first atKi oiilv countjr 'be ftf the itio Grande. Blouses 2-98 spring half war in a heaulifui new rayon blouse! Feminine ruffled colorful peasant types multicolored dottaci sheers and others just as engaging! 32-38. Month-End CLEARANCE! Women's and New Misses' Wool COATS AND SUITS While they Dark and Pastel Colors Sizes 12 to You'll Like 10.00 Mat CLEARANCE PRICED Women's and Misses' LIGHTWEIGHT MOIRE SATIN RAINCOATS While 200 last! Siies 10 to 20 3.50 GIRL'S WINTER 3.00 and 8.00 PRICED CLEAR! Sixes-i to 14 Years.

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Boy's FELT HATS $1,49.