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Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 9

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April 28, 1937 Tackle Forms Problem FDR Leaves For Texas Fishing Trip While Fishermen Discuss Proper Equipment GALVESI ON, I President Roosevelt prepared to leave Tuesday night for a tishing 1 trip in Texas coastal waters the along the seashore threshed out the problem oi what sort of tackle the chief executive should use. NEW BUILDING RUMORED HERE Modern Store Will Replace Ruins VALLEY MORNING FATHER, LIKE Paire 3 HARLJNGEN Negotiations were being conducted between officials of the Hobbs Estates and local contractors for the construction of a modern store building at i Several veteran anglers frowned on the plan i the corner of Monroe and am to use a tackle." but Connie Streets, it was learned here Tues- Constabile. who knows the busi- day. ness from bent pins on up. snarled The building would replace the at the idea of a tongue and ruins of the building demolished by stake the tropical hurricane of Septem- ber 1933 and then occupied by snjup Junkin Furniture Company that the battling tarpons would be Tl.ntatlV(.

lans vldo th 81ven a handicap and a chance to construction single-story bull- ding, it was announced. CLASS LEADER IS ANNOUNCED a 8ive the president the horse laugh Lila nedUb if the light outfit were used. Weslaco Class light Light Tackle Okay (Vtllry Morning Star Connie shot back that use of the More Dividends WESLACO Lila Cleckler, with "ould be in accordance an average of 96.9 points, will be the valedictorian of the class of 1937, and Annabelle Haaker, with an average of 94.9 will be the salutatorian. Carl Berry made the high- with Texas Gulf coast tions" and explained that President Roosevelt was an honorary member of the Port Aransas Fishing Club, which has used regulation Pipeline Company To Pay $825,000 est grade among the boys of the tackles 25 years. senior class, his average being 92.8.

Lila grade is only one Connie added: tenth of a point lower than the -The light tackl Highest valedictorian grade made too in Weslaco in the last five years. Scholarships to all the mojor colleges of Texas will be awarded lo these three students on the night of commencement. To this convincing argument. light to handle big tarpon. Many anglers were under the impression the president planned to NEW YORK Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.

announced Tuesday dividends totaling $7.50 a share on the $6 class preferred is by no means stock and the $6 class preferred. payable May 3 to stock of record April 23. The distributions, amounting to TARPON National Network U. S. QUEEN SLATED i DIVIDEND UP Contract Set In Texas This Week KILGORE.

Tex. J. T. Allen. East Texas organizer for the International Oil Field.

Gas Well and Refinery Workers, predicted Monday night that the first contract since the CIO sponsored drive began among oil field workers would be completed this week. Allen said he exnected negotiations between employees and the one piece with attached butt; tip of Refining Company at any solid wood or split cane; rod not Shreveport to be completed Friday more than six feet, nine inches overnight. stating that only the seniority all; tip not less than five feet and clause in the contract was unfinish- not to exced 16 ounces in weight; line not to exceed No. 24 thread. Light class: Rod construction same as others: length not less than six feet overall; butt not to exceed 18 inches; tip not less than five feet and not to exceed six ounces in use light bait-casting outfits.

What $825,000. will liquidate all dividend he intends to use is a regulation out- arrearages on the senior stocks, the fit company states. They cover quar- Another veteran deep-sea fisher- I i11? Payments and for the man of the Texas coast. Skelly Skelton of Houston, snorted at the idea, saying, can reveling, catch fish with a wagon tongue and ehmmation of certain restrictions in stake rope, but there's not much fie company former mortgage in-: sport to it. I'm sure the president denture through a recent refunding I wants the sort of fight he can get first quarter of 1937.

Payments were authorized, said president, with Using the vigorous campaign tactics of her father, the late Senator Huey Long, Pretty Rose Long was elected president of the Student Association of Louisiana State University. Rose is shown second from right, in white jacket, putting a ballot into box, as her coed supporters look on. out of a big one on a light tackle Connie clasified regulation tackles this way: Clasifies Types Heavy class: Rod construction of Company produces and natural gas from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas fields io :r.e Illinois-Indiana state line. Cement Company Shows Increases In 1936 Earnings ed. Donna C-C Meets (Valley Morning; Star DONNA will be a Cham- NEW YORK Lone Star Ce- Tuesday ment Corp.

reported for year ended Dec. 1 consolidated net profit of $2.892.717. equal to $2.99 a share Proposed Health Unit Plan Hit By Officials After Court Plan; Expenditure Is Flayed (Valiev Morning Mar Neus Service) (unit along with the Brownsville BROWNSVILLE Officials of I school district, the state and federal Cameron county cities indicated the governments. proposed plan for establishment of Under the proposed plan. $12.000 a preventive health unit would be would be allocated by the state and rejected following approval of the federal governments which would plan of the commissioners court, be matched by Cameron county Expense Shared The plan provides that Browns- the school district and the cities The establishment of the preventive unit would combine the curative unit and the new group under weight: line not to exceed standard ber of Commerce meeting in Don- thread Three-six class: Rod construction same as others; length not less than six feet overall; weight not to exceed six ounces, including butt: butt length 12 inches: tip length not less than five feet: line not to exceed standard No.

6 line. riH on Tuesday at seven thirty and all members of the community are urged to attend Places for supper may be reserved before noon Friday at the Central Power and Light Company in Donna. on the common stock. This com- T. one single unit pared with Sl.048.443 in 1935 or v.lle.

Harlingen and San Benito as-1 $1.64 a share. Company's domestic properties are located in Alabama. Texas, Louisiana. Pennsylvania. Indiana, Missouri, Virginia and New York.

Foreign subsdiaries operate in South America and.Cuba. sume part of the expense of the Honor Roll HALL-SABIN WIN HOT SPRINGS. Va. SHOEMAKER SPEAKS (Valiev Morning Slar HARLINGEN Major H. Shoemaker.

Harlingen, Cavalry. Reserve Officers Association unit instructor and contact officer for the lley district, will speik on of at the meeting here Wednesday night of the ROA. it was announced Monday. Connie said there were 110 restric- bert Hi)U New york and tions as to the size of the reel. J.

Gil- Way ne Sabin. Mollywood. won the Mason and Dixon doubles tennis championship here Monday. They defeated Martin Muxby. Becoming VV eaker Miami, and Elwood Cooke.

Portland. Religious Faster Harlingen city officials indicated i they would not favor the plan because of the overlapping expenditure. The city maintains its own health department is operated efficiently and officials contend that the taxpayers should not be bur- WESLACO dened with expenses of the county (Valley Morning Star Service) unit. WESLACO The following list Brownsville officials were consists of the names and classifi- ported to be unfavorable to the plan cations of the Weslaco honor rolls, and thus far only San Benito has in- SUPERIOR HONOR ROLL dicated willingness to assume a por- and 1 tion of the proposed expenditure. 11th: Lila Cleckler, Annabelle Haaker, Neal Pettit.

10th: Ralph Fitzgerald, Raba Arm- Valley Rivalry For Honor Is Seen alley Murnins Star Service) PORT ISABEL Plans for the campaign to select the 1937 Queen of the Rio Grande Valley Fishing Rodeo August 4-8th will be an- nounced soon. An important an; nounccment will be made the Jast of this week in connection with some special consideration to be i awarded the queen this year that is probably the most important activity ever accorded the fishing rodeo publicity campaigns of the past. Plans I formed for the making of the queen's gown of tar- scales which should be an improvement over the beautiful creation of last year which attracted national attention and was recog- 1 nized with a feature article in the American weekly magazine of the Hearst Syndicate. The article was illustrated with a picture of last queen. Miss Betty Atk ns.

of San Benito, wearing her tarpon scale gown. Present indications are that there 1 will be a lively rivalry among the Valley cities for the honor of selecting the queen this year. There will really be something to work for this year. Deadline Is Near In Range Program (Valley Morning Star News Service) EDINBURG The dealine for submitting applications for parti- cipation in the federal range program was set for May 1. according to G.

Burweil, Hidalgo county farm agent. Tuesday. Ranchers desiring to participate in the program were urged to file applications before the deadline. May 1 was also the final day for filing application for participaton the federal agricultural conservation program. Burweil said.

Daughter To Enter Movies HOLLYWOOD. Calif. Roberta Semple. estranged daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. appeared Monday to be headed for a career in the movies.

A letter came to her attorney, red- haired Jacob Moidel, inviting her to meet the heads of two Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox. and David Selznick. of Selznick International. The letter also advised her to bring Moidel along, inferring. Moidel said, that he might be movie material, too- Morning Star Service) SAN BENITO A poem by Jo C.

Elstner of San Benito will be included in the of the coast-to-coast broadcast i Wednesday morning over the Columbia network, according to announcement received here. The tri-weekly broadcasts under the daylight saving schedule now in effect are from nine to nine- i thirty- The poem to be read by Delmar Edmondson, editor of of the is entitled Little Way to Walk With You, 1 My and was written by Mr. Elstner a number of years I ago. to his wife. The program is that in which Anne Elstner, daughter of Mr.

Elstner, has the leading part in I Valley Barbers Attend Meet In Edinburg Monday (Valley Star News Service) EDINBURG Valley barbers attended a meeting of the union, No. 931, at the Edinburg Hotel shop here Monday night when a review of state board activities was presented by J. L. Curlee. state inspector.

Health regulations of the state board were explained at the meeting alor with the issuance of state licenses. Leonard Bates, Mercedes, presided during the meeting. Next local meeting will be held at Brownsville in May, it was announced following the secsion here. Twenty Million To Stockholders NEW YORK Directors of U. S.

Steel Corp Tuesday ordered a disbursement of more than 000.000 to preferred stockholders and disclosed earnings of the huge 1 enterprise for the first quarter the best for any lod since the summer of 1930 The eagerly awaited preferred dividend amounts to $5.75 a share, of which $4 was on account of arrears and $1.75 the regular quarterly payment. By its action the I board reduced the ifcumulated ar! rears to $5.25 a share compared with $16.25 a share a year ago. Earnings Soar Net earnings for the quaiter were $28.561,533. equal after the regular preferred dividend requirements to $2 55 a share on the common stock. For the first quarter of 1936.

net income was $3.376,304, or 94 cents a share on the preferred only. The big reduction in preferred accumulations led to considerable speculation in Wall street as to when they would be cleared completely and the way paved for resumption of payments on the common. Prior to the depression this stock was on the basis of $7 annually. but the disbursement duo June 30, 1932, was not made end no payments have been ordered since that time. Townsendites Meet alley Morning Star Service) WESLACO The- first public meeting of the Weslaco Townsend Club.

No. 2 will be held Wednesday night at the Stephen F. Austin Ward School beginning ac 8 p. it was announced Tuesday. C.

A. Roberson, state organizer, will deliver an address at the meeting expected to be attended by Townsendites over the Valley. Organization of the new club was completed last Satuiday night Steel Profits For Republic Soaring CLEVELAND The Republic Steel Corp. and subsidiaries reported Tuesday consolidated net profit for the first quarter of 567.063. compared with a net prof- i it of $361.031 for the first quarter I of 1936.

Payne Visits Here (Valley Morning Star Service) HARLINGEN B. Payne, formerly of Harlingen and now in the serving on the ship USS Altair. is on a 30-day leave and is vis- iting relatives in Harlingen. Payno has been in the navy for eight years. I He arrived here Monday.

Values Studied by 6-1. 17-15. 2-6. 6-2. The strong Eileen Barr Ella Mae Kam- Kaan Jl recommendations of STOOPING OAK.

Tenn. heard match had been postponed on ac- Emaciated Jackson Whitlow'. 45- count of rain at merer Tire Vulcanizing Fast Equipment Valley-Wide Pick-Up Delivery URED SIZES DUDLEY TIRE SERVICE Phone 1281 610 W. Harrison Marjorie Trott. Fred Keen- White Sulphur i ey year-old religious faster, appearled Springs.

W. and transferred Leighdell Griffin. Monday to to pray for here where the 7th annual Hot Billie Ruth Bourland. Ruth me that I may have the strength Springs Invitation is to open Tues- Helen Young Katherine Swanzey. and grace to stand all that God day.

7th: Tom Solether, Watson Keen- wants me to go through On the 48th day he says he has gone without tood since receiving cal from the Whitlow was pitifully to speak above a whisper and barely able to move about in his bed. ey Mifrgaret Lucas, Betty Lou A bill introduced recently in the Leonard. Donald Hewlett. Eleanor French Chamber of Deputies demanded that all foreigners under 50 years of age be expelled or put in concentration camps 48 hours after mobilization orders. At NeSmith, Betty Jo Smith.

6th: Margaret Ezekiel, Marjorie Sidener, Irene Yoder. Gene Ar- Valdez. HONOR ROLL (2 Grades Bj. 11th: Jewel Hudson. Lucille Rohr, Carl Berry.

Kirk Leonard. Helen Langewisch. 10th: Frances Hamner, Dan Scholz. James Skidmore, Bpnney Horton, Evelyn Baiiey court water district managers for the adoption of a graduated system of assessing values upon land for state and county taxes. The plan was outlined to the court by Frank Robertson, San Benito.

It provides for set values upon land used for various agricultural crops with potential citrus producing brushiand as a basis. Members of the court refused to say whether or not the proposed system would be adopted in assessing values. No action was taken by the court regarding the appointment of evaluators to assist the equalization board in assessing values for 1937 taxes. The movement had been opposed by the Cameron County Taxpayers Association. whose officials contended Easement Bill Signed HARLINGEN A bill granting easements to the federal government for flood control lands lying along the Rio Grande and the Arroyo Colorado in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, was signed Monday by Governor James V.

Allred, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Horse Injures Garcia Morning Star News Servire) BROWNSVILLE Juan Garcia. Brownsville, was given emergency treatment for injuries received when a horse threw him against a parked automobile 011 Fourteenth Street. Monday. He was rushed to the Mercy Hospital where his condition was reported not serious.

MECO OXYGEN MAGNOLIA ACETYLENE AIRCO CARBIDE EQUIPMENT CO. Everything For Weidtng HARLINGEN REPAIR ANY MAKE 608 W. Harrisao biliousness, sour stomaefi, bilious indigestion, flatulence and headache, due to constipation. 10c and 25c at ThsyVe Goins Fast! 9tll: JeaA1 feUy that ompioyrnent of the evaluators frrizxcll, Ruth Knowles, Rertrude nvnense and DRflin DIRTV WHITER OIL Schreck, Aaron Boyd, Kibbert Dancey, Mary Louise Guenther, Charles Leonard, Bobby McDaniel. 8th: Bobbie Dunson.

Bobbie Jane McCants. Hardy Aldridge. Joseph Schoen. Charles Skidmore. 7th; Eileen Andrews, George Bradford, Harold Bristow, Ardean McDaniel.

John Wilson. Phyllis Hoge, Clara Mae Isham. Snirley McCasland. Anita Kobeck, Jane Brooks. 6th: Neil Chandler.

June Gudmanson. Oilie Mae Swinnea, Johnny Hewlett. Sam Jones, Robert McCracken. Edward Niles, David Young, Evaline Bradford, Eleanor Mortensen. HONORABLE MENTION Grade below C).

would be unnecessary expense and infringed upon the duties of the county assessor-collector. ----------Studebaker Shows Sales Increases SOUTH BEND, Indiana Sales of 3,770 passenger cars and trucks during the first ten days of this month were reported here today by Geo. D. Keller, vice president in charge of sales of The Studebaker Corporation. This is an increase of 22 per cent over the same neriod of April 1936 when 3,088 uiots were sold.

Mr. Keller stated that the total sales for the year to date is 30.118 units as compared with Go Under Knife VODR 1th: Marjorie Andrews, Rosa Lee 290 to date last veai, an increase of Coonrod, Cornelia Fort, Shirley Per cent- Gudmanson. Lois Ludwig. Dorothy Marshall, Grady Aldridge, Robert Arnett. Junior Jenkins.

10th: Willard Glass. Paul Hollin- HARLINGEN Allen Richey, ger, Jack Thompson, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Beaur, Edith Bradbury, Estner RUSSell Richey, underwent a ton- Collver. Edith Whitaker, Esther silectomy at the Valley Baptist Hos- Schroeder, Hilda Griffin, Rose pital.

Tuesday. His condition was sen, Wayne Buchanan, Gladys reported as favorable. Hemza. Maydeen King, Martha Shurbet. La Villa, under- Jeane Peddicord.

went a major operation at the Val9th: Minnie Mae Coonrod, Joe Baptist Hospital, Tuesday. Baldyga, Mary Louise Johnston, I one you can rid yourself of a lot of automobile worries. Magnolia Summerize Service includes a complete change-over to the correct summer MobiloiJs crnd Mobilgreases. It includes, too, a thorough check-up of your radiator, battery, tires, lights everything you need for safe, economical summer driving. Depend on your friendly Magnolia Dealer to give your car expert attention.

Look for the sign of the "Flying Hed Horse." Change Now to Summer Grade Jack Massey. Abel Morales, TheJma Nease. Billie Marion Parks, Bennett. 8th: Donald Fleming. Canon Hoge, Howard Lombard.

Millicent Yoder, Mae Ferguson, Martha Mullens. Holmes Mears, Bill McWhorter, Catherine Hoepfner, Bonnie Tisdale. Allene Holman. 7th: Olive Falardeau. Hazel Kain- merer, MaTy McAlpin, Joe Barbee, William Ruggles.

Albert Villarreal, Mary Britton. Grace Milliken, Lloyd McCandless, Mary Nunn, Lu- ciclaire Rankin, Hugh Arant, Rowland Coffman. Betty Frances AVx- ander, Katherine Farina, Robbie Good. Norene Lasiter, Veta Mae Rakestraw, Martha Sansing, Leta Smith. 6th: Lou Cannon, Roman i Delgado.

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