Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

forms Christ! taller RIO GRASDE VALLEY SEWS CORPUS Cl IRISH TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 27 1968 PAGE 8F (Merger Date Is Announced By Gas Firm HIDALGO OFFICIAL FAVORS DIVISIOS OF PRECINCT 21 MERCEDES County Commissioner Herbert Pike said Wednesday he will recommend dividing Frevinct 21 in west Mercedes half at US Highway when the matter comes up in the commissioners court probably in August Under the law all voting precincts with more than 200(1 votes must be divided to lighten the load on election officials Mercedes No 21 ls dlte of the half a dozen big boxes in the county Rox 21 has some 2745 votes The east box in Mercedes No has 1334 votes By dividing No 21 at US S3 Pike figures the number of votes will approximate 1400 in each box Commissioner Pike said he does not know as yet what numtx'ncal designation will be given th etwo political subdivisions made out of No 21 One of them will continue as 21 and the other as perhaps 44 or 45 depending upon what other designations must be made in the county The three voting precincts in Mercedes where there are two at this lime still will be in Commissioner Pike's precinct Pike has some 14922 voting constituents in Donna Kdcoueh 1-a Villa Mercedes Progreso Stockholm and Weslaco Cameron Board Incomplete Several Groups Unrepresented On Mew Bodv BROWNSVILLE Formation of a new reduced board of directors for Cameron County Community Projects Inc is not yet complete Ray Ramon executive director said Wednesday Aside from the problem over who will represent Harlingen and San Benito from elected officials ranks several other groups have not been heard from according to Ramon The 50-odd member hoard of 'directors was reduced to 24 by executive committee with approval of the board some six weeks ago partly to conform with requirements of the 1967 amendments to the Office of 'Economic Opportunity Act The reorganized hoard will serve until Feb 1 1969 when iCameron County expects to av 'sume sponsorship of the com-miupity action program The county may take over the agen-jcy around Nov 1 Ramon said about 12 of the new directors have been officiality nominated by the various' I governmental bodies from low 'economic areas and various rcli igious and civic organizations He said the I 'Chamber of Commerce which was invited to nominate a representative declined on the basis that its membership was loo in- 'vofvcd in other activities Ilcj said it will be up to the board to: decide how this vacancy will he I filled The seat alloted lo an elected official from the Harlingen-San Benito area is desired by both Harlingen City Commissioner 'Sam Lozano and San Benito Mayor Fete Adams Two members of commissioners court have been nominated Adolph Thnmae Jr of San Beni-to and Johnny Cavazos of Brownsville-County Judge Bin asis The acquisition of Rio Grande Grande common stock The pre-Valley Gas Co by Coastal Slates forced stock is non -callable by (las Producing Co will be com- Coastal States until June 30 jplctcd by July I Wyatt 1973 It will then he callable at 'Jr board chairman and a share equivalent to $10 a ident of Coastal Stales said yes-share of Rio Grande common terday 'stock The merger was approved by Coastal States also will as shareholders of Rio Grande Mime all of Rio Grande's liabtU-April 16 1968 ties and obligations A final ruling from the Inter-j nal Revenue Service has hren it ii received that the transaction V' 1 1 1 II 111 was a non-taxnble exchange hirj 7 111111 income tax purposes Under the terms of the agree- I nwsit Rio Grande shareholders' UlllflLo will receive about 6730M shares of new Coastal States Series jiaaail convertible Preferred Slock on' I til 1 1 ILI the basLs of two shares of pie-1 Screwworms BEEVILLE QUEEN Nancy Cel and Miss Eoeville and Miss Coe County is shown being crowned by last queen Betty Dorsey Nancy is a senior at A- Jones High School in Beeviile She was selected from a field of 51 entrants and will represent Beeviile in the Miss South Texas contest in Seguin July 3-4 ferrrd stock for each 661 shares: 'of Rio Grande common stock 1 Causing Alarm Study Board Is Called Due to Increased Count General heavy thundershowr- Each two shares of the ferred stock are convertible into one share of Coastal States com-i gn Rnwrn' and c0lon produ imon stock The preferred stink Much of thp VaIhy is ready to harvest but work is jhas an annual dividend rate of VALLEY ROUNDUP ty rWnlrnnt of Rli tpen harvest The showers keep ham-d Uvalde set TnCtllllOim afnrhaMf cents for each share I MISSION An numher of screwworm cases Monday after a record high case count in Texas last week has promoted officials of the Monday July 1 in the SI Souhwest Animal Health Rc-thony Hotel at San Antonio search Foundation to call an emergency board meeting to alarming study the worsening situation Dolph Briscoe Jr of chairman of SWAHRF has tart Sixty new Texas screwworm confirmed Valuation Zoning Public Hearings Set 'Combines out of the fields and the grain Prices for grain delivered range from $170 tin the mid-Valley delivered to the elevator to $192 a bushel at 'the Port Brownsville facility for 14 pT cent moisture content The Valley has a high quality of 250000 to 300000 acres of grain but it cannot wait long fur harvest The recent rains iare a major problem the meantime cotton pro- pomitalily existed have about 300000 acres E2SRJ1 bem 11k They to cases were Monday the most in a single day in several years Briscoe said Arizona also set a new record with 17 confirmations The Foundation board will review the rapid increases or screwworm cases in birth Texas 'and Arizona and consider what Claims I Rapp is the elected official nom ter tlurr grades prior to enter-' fowled from Willacy County ing sct-ipd grade in the fall Fif-j Other official nominations re- jty teachers and 50 aides willlceived include the Rev George limn I BROWNSVILLE More than conduct the program to be held Saenz and Trinidad Gonzalez of 0 first g-eders are expected to from 8-11 am Meanwhile over Brownsville and Zenon 1-opez of register Thursday for a seven- 900 youngsters who will enter jRaymondville representing UieiJj CAP Aiillioritv week through" program first grade in September are at-'poor and from the civic rcli-! BROWNSVILLE Cameron County Commissioners Court will sit as a board of equalization Thursday to hear protests on values placed on industries railroads and utilities The court also will hold a public hearing on proposed changes in zoning regulations of side yard ease-ments on South Padre Island steps can be taken and at petition as an independent can what levels to check the epi- StaTV didate for Calhoun County tax frequent rams all season ()j is in the boli assessor-collector may be inval-stap but rwurrtng rams delay the opening of thrse bolls uiMlarfiiiid the pet it inn Thp igoj coGon crop already ttarcnce Barton behind schedule and a July Tuesday morning j1 -first bale1' may lie in prospect In checking on time llmita- fnr the first time in many years lions for possible Independent ower not only delay ma-candulates for Calhoun County jturity of cotton but wash off the to be held in all elementary tending an eight-week pre-school gious educational and business schools in the i 1 1 prograi designed to prepare! ranks A Rodriquez District The summer them for their first year of of Raymondville Robert Vela of1 project financed with $43162 ini school Emphasis is on oral lan- Harlingen Father Robert Pena nin hlllnh (hl Title I funds is designed to as-j guage development This pro-of Brownsville Father Robert an taVsouast Texas list tot-grade student lo bols-i gram wiil nn to Aug 14 jWwte to llmn scrjiin rommissiontTs Court has no flits in an easterly direction into TtonartrUiy 1-nunty authority lo dictate reorganiza- now areas of the slate Founda jJIcalth Department jtim of the CAP board tion officials aLso are exported in iSS? Gilbert said he rfod w6 nsidcr hs Dr in Brownsville Harlingen andij ith al 'M Meadows Jr field opera- jWuvno Wieoidm at 41m IfiL-L'inn High Court Upholds Tropical Storm Candy which nd i "hX 1 if? i to P0-4 1 fon wfii Frank San Benito have not officially he Mission replaced of fnr fhp the stae been heard from nnr ha'Vhi001 0fI'ce i Opportunity in Austin I Screwwonn I-j-adlcMion Centar I agency neard from various or- TVl r4P Ls to review trends and the over- West Ranch Ownership Rulings judge in the November election county officials learned here Wednesday afternoon that Mrs petition may not be acceptable Hi An independent candidate c5illl ill must have filed a declaration of 1 intent to run by Feb of this year according to the 1968 Election Code This was the opinion of Mary Kay Wall former assistant to the state attorney gener- Insert poison which must be immediately at a cost atsaii $230 an acre A j) proved Caller -Times Washington WASHINGTON An i loan to the San Patricio norninaC a represemauve designated the existing agency! Texas has recorded 602 cases to run the poverty program and this year with 10 per cent of therefore the CAP not the com- Uiem being confirmed Monday He said If nothing has been I heard from these groups in the WESLACO The Mid-Valley Community Committee has approved publication of a tourist polnts-of-ln-terest map of the area and appointed a committee to plan a good will trip Into the Nuevo Progreso area The map will be subject to approval by the individual chamber boards whose members comprise the Mld-Vallcy group William Cain of Progreso Joe Cardenas of Weslaco Coward of Elsa and Maurice Bell of Donna were named to the good will committee Tentative plans are to make the trip this fall BROWNSVILLE Personnel changes among the local Opiates of Mary immaculate have been announced by Bishop Humberto Medeiros The major will ask thcnussioncrs has the right to re-board for further instructions organize the board Hriiiihiini Girl Bureau $S49000 Elertric al and now with the secretary of iCooperative at Sinton has been office approved by the Rural Blectnfi- A judge will be named in the a i Administration Sen November general election to Ralph Varbomugh and Rep succeed the late Howard John Young announced Wedncs-an Independent llartzog To be day Kingsville I Gilbert said he will report to the CAP board Thursday andIu Awinli'il proceed "to reorganize as seen 1 iuu lu fit by the existing board" The 1 TT gnu will meet at 7:30 pm uniool -the Boy Clu UIL Scliolarslii The CAP and Webb County the children together with Austin National Bank had a $10000 lien on the ranch Dist Judge John May held that half of the title was with the widow and the other half with the children The appellate court affirmed that decision and the Supreme Court said there was no reversible error in the ruling candidate for the judge's post the candidate must file a peti- The loan will finance 1 10 miles of distribution linps serving 650 Caller-Times Austin Bureau AUSTIN Mrs Marvin West of Mercedes and her three sisters-in-law are entitled to only one-half interest in the 374-acre Frio County ranch owned by the late II West and the other half belongs to Mrs West That was the effect Wednesday of the State Supreme change affects St Margaret's' Parish in Pharr which has bcen e9nd th ath rnurtrf staffed by OMI priests since its and the 4h Court in San Antonio Dies al 76 Caro'yn tMc commissioners have been at!" graduate of Edinburg odds for weeks since the com- High School has been given a missioners designated equal rep-'jijo Brown Memorial Trust resentation for the poor public! nfficiaiu arui iniirpdi(t (rmniK scholarship by the Texas Inter- scholastic League Foundation Brown Memorial Trust an- Connuclicul Milll In Drug Case nr Brooks McLane 76 president board Commissioners turned iemeritus of the Presbyterian down demands from the poor lion with signatures of some 100 new consumers as wpII as nu qualified voters by July 1 or 30mcrous inprovemenls to the exdays after the June 1 primary listing system The Calhoun County Democratic 1 Executive Committee has inter-! viewed or scheduled interviews oj A of'JlOOl with five applicants seeking lo aa i be the Democratic party nomi-j i HUls olll(ll('( nee i The incumbent Mrs' Katie PHARR The contract for Guidry was unopposed in the 'the construction of a $1 million Democratic primary in her lad fnr re-election as Calhoun County tax assessor-collector Em- junior high school in PSJA School District will be let day nually provides five $1000 Tan American School in Kings- for 50 per cent control of the' f(1P niltv-tanHiiu hiirh la pH ana acvioxtoi 7 sj0is inwards lor outsianaing nign hoard and assigned each group Civil Appeals The dispute over West's will arose from evidence that he purchased the ranch from Grande Oil Co with $19629 of his own funds shortly after he and Lola Agnes West married for the second time in 1956 In May 1963 West moved to Austin for medical attention and Thurs-- ployed until March in the taxi Low bidders on the project office Mrs were Adams Brothers with a 'Cuellar announced following ter-1 base of $1204700 and Braselton mination of Nr employment Constructinn Co with $121000 that she would be an iwlepen- Both are under study of the dent candidate for the post hoard because they are so close LAREDO (Sp) Marijuana dicd Wedncsday in charges were filed here Wcd-jvNe rest home nesday against an unemployed Brooks has been moderator of i 21-year-old man from Connec-jthe Synod of Texas Prosbyterl-licul- an Church US and was recog- hplljf A'(SSchm i-d wanizcd in 1957 as an outstanding boueht a house there before he nf alumnus of Austin College in application with the Texas De- 'place in conference AAA short- svJK' WmCfnuftaeSnvmth'hlan" Mnnn at Austinjone items on the agenda of fed in spelling tennis and typing 5 5uaPd Shmidt College in 1913 taught there un-the Brownsville city commission 'she plans to study business and mi hw his a her heirs Io'm I'f ounty Jai ln lieu of til 1915 and later was awarded meeting at 5:30 pm Thursday 'finance at Texas Christian Uni-ed by ms oner nen $2500 bond a doctor of dvini first iversity 1934 McLane first served as a mission school teacher at Fresbv joined before terpreted Schmidt was arrested Tuesday night at the International Bridge The other heire included as he crossed from the Marvin West widow of the elder BROWNSVILLE A request' Miss McLean salutatorian of for the city manager Jo graduating class wxm third New Museum Directory erection in 1929 It will be staffed by diocesan priests in the future Rev Donald Haile OM and Rev Gerard Barrett OMI are transferred to other areas in the diocese McALLEN A new 129-bed nursing home estimated to cost $750006 will be constructed by the Christian and Missionary A 1 1 1 a Church on North Ward Road near Golden Acres Development The project will Include the nursing home itself a 112-seat dining room and recreational area and space for retail services Construction is to start late this year Long-range plans call for construction of a high-rise apartment building for the elderly The alliance already operates four such projects in the United Stale the largest a $ll-mil- PHONEIQDAY Mexican side West's son and his daughters inspect' Mrs LelaPeal Holley and Mrs of somirefined mart-Velina Nettie Keller both of juana conceals behind the bat and his daughters jiiisMrtors said foSdtS'teriin -i tton (1Ispecors said iney found Ran American School i fiveithcn know as Tcxas Mcxkan Industrial Institute in 1914 lie' was principal from 1918 to 1932 and president until bis retire-1 I ment in 1955 Includes our in Valley WESLACO The Lower RiojThe directory describes it as Funeral services will be at Grande Viflley has four listings i unique museum exhibiting 10:30 am Friday in the First: in the new Texas Museum1" combat airplanes from ch 1 1967 that the homestead I nt Iaily Frccnls lion complex at Shell Foint iwas not abandoned and It was) Vreliitont Florida The project will be icommunity property but that poRTLAND Ore IB Mrs Lyndon Johnson presented a "a 22 the World War II era" Also at the airpark in Harlingen is the Ixiwcr Rio Grande Valley Museum where Valley historical and scientific items FOR HOME DELIVERY Presbyterian Church in Kerr-i Directory compiled by the Tex-ville Burial will be in Garden of jas Historical Survey Committee Memories Cemetery under the land published by th? Humble Oil Fair Fu-jand Refining Co of Houston They are the Live Steam Mu OF THE Valley TV special citation from the Ameri- lean Institute of A i ineral Home of Kcrrville Wednesday to Arthur Gould Survivors include his Odell Jr ef Charlotte Incuae nw direction of Plummer wife 'seurn near Alamo the Stiilman aiaj colled wns are exhibited Odell is former mosident nf '-17cn: hree S- Brooks House Museum at Brownsville aiKj open to the public between uaen is iwmer president ofjMcLane Jr who attends penn the Confederate Air force Mu-anrf fnm aJJ(j pm Wednesday and Sun- the Corpus Christ! Culler Have tho Carpui Christ! Collar Dalivtrtrt Your Doorstag Early Each marking Phong Agtnt Ncarttt You seum and the Lower Rio Grrfnde ay Valley Museum at Harlingen THURSDAY (Channel 4) KGBT-TV fhairmantho8 -5 Jsylvania State University Rev 'tnmarmanlii McLane of Cucro and itomac Planning Task Force Dubose McLane of New York a 'ibrothcr John Mclane of San The Stillman House is located at 1305 Washington in The Valley Chamber of merce in calling attention to i 35 Sumnwr StfTWlttr 7:00 Ty CcM 7-30 Corttoni 100 Coe KongarM 0:00 OotiM Gain 0 30 BcvcrTy Hllibillift II 00 Andy Grttflffi 11-30 Dick Van Dyk Harlingen 4'W Wcdd na Po-t JX G'Hioan lilond i JO Ntw 0:30 Hogoh't tKron 7 k'yma Nirtl 7 18 Ifwi'chad 0 00 Me -a 19 00 Ntw Bg Val'ty 11:30 Wrti'lino Airman Pminnlrd lAntonio and seven grandchil- the new edition the dmloryJ'lse- J'38 budt about I drcn 'also pointed out other and wa the home of the LAREDO pointed out other 11-ilGuMlng Light 11-00 TakK Talk 11:30 At Wtrll Turn 1 00 Lmt 130 Moot larly 1 go Tall Ih Truth 130 Edge at Night 3:00 Sacrat Storm 3:30 Dark Shadow Tomorrow 4 00 Droam Hcuio (Sp) Rogelio Macias son of Mr and Mrs Jesus museums opening and planned fer opening in the near future but too late to be listed founder of Brownsville The Live Steam Museum Ls two miles north of Ala- 11:00 Lv UK 11:30 Starch Macias of Laredo has been Grant Is Approved eslaco promoted to sergeant in the US i McAllen MU6-S76I Mercedes W08-3440 Mission MU6-S768 Pharr MU6-S768 Raymondville MU9-2360 Rio Grande City 487-3588 San Benito EX9-1549 San Juan MU6-S768 Weslaco WOS-3440 W08-3833 Alama Brownsvillo Donna Edcooch-Elin Edinburg Harlingen Hobbronvillo Li Faria Inrodo MU6-576S 112 8369 W08-3440 AM2-223S MU6-S76S GA3-1795 IA7-3394 GA3-7896 RA3-3382 4:30 Dan! Bern 7:30 Pevton Plot I OO Miu Woo Pojeant 00 Dean Marlin 10 New 10 30 Tonight KKGV-TV 7 II Taooy Shod Judgment 0:30 CancantmtiaR Ptnenaltty 11-00 Biwitcd 11:30 Eva Gut tin Nw U30 Mak Deal (Channel 5 1 00 Day ef Our LivN 1:30 Th Doctor 100 Another World 3 30 You Don't Soy 3:00 Watch Gam 1-30 General Hmoltal Mike Dawya 5:30 Huntley-Irmk'O 4 00 New For Wcmlac Center I One of the newest in the Vfl on farm Road 907 and is the ley is the Smallest Mu-1 only known operating steam mu-Callcr-Times Washington Bureau seum" in Weslaco Another Lslseum in the world There Ls a WASHINGTON A $149796 located In the old city hail atreplicrf of an old railroad tele- grant tor a neighborhood center Edinburg At Raymondville an fTaph office along with various 'Thailand Assignment Weslaco has been approved old school building has been do-J)'! fitoant engines and by the Department of Housing as the site for a Willacy pumps I LAREDO (Spl Airman lc'and Urban Development Sen' County Museum i Free copies may be obtained Fernando A Tijerina son of Ralph Yarborough announced The CAF Flying Museum es- by writing the Humble Touring Mr and Mrs Cayetano Tijerina Wednesday tablished on Rebl Field near Service Box 2180 Houston of Laredo has been assigned to! The center which will sene Mercedes is in the process ofi77001 Copies aLso are available duty at Udorn Royal Thai AFB low-income families is expected moving to Ufrger quarters at the to tourists at th? Texas Highway-in Thailand ito cost $199728 Harlingen Industrial Airpark Department Laredo Channel 8) KGNS-TAr Today Snaa Judgment 0:30 Dick avert Jaegardy 11: Eva Gueis 13 HI Naan 11:31 At World Turn Dm Of Our Uve 1:30 The doctor 110 Another World 1:30 Dork Shodaw I Dating Gam 110 Btwrtchid 4 00 Dmam Hama 4:30 Wedding Party 5:00 Journey 534 Hunttty-Brinkley 4 09 New 30 DanM Beona 7:36 Iromirit 1 30 Payton wioca Tim far Amtricon 10 00 Ntw 30 Joey Biihta MORNING ar EVENINGS nd SUNDAYS 50c wk 1 4 AAA A lr AAA aaaaa aaa JkAAAAAAAA am mA.