Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas (2024)

February 3, 1958

Publication:

Corpus Christi Caller-Timesi

Location:

Corpus Christi, Texas

Issue Date:

Monday, February 3, 1958

Page:

26

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TEXAS MONDAY FEBRUARY 3 1938 new term of 79th District Court in Brooks County this morning All pending criminal Ind civil cases will be called A new grand jury to serve during the six-month term also win be sworn fa today Laughlin Will Open Cojirt term Today Calfer-Tfmee News Service FALFURRIAS Dbt Judge Woodrow Laughlin will open Boy Pup Out Check for Rabies Here 41-H mW HALF OR WHOII cr of the pup Fair of 1010 Collingswood a is now In a kennel under observation and young Bran-nan is gagerly waitiflg tcfind out if toe (tog will stow signs of Herbert and his mother are planning to leave next month to join Herbert's father who la stationed with the Navy in Hawaii If he baa to take the shots the Brannan family will have to wait a little longer for their reunion Choice Choice Good Good HINDS US US as as A 13-year-old boy and a small brown terrier pup are waiting until Feb 13 to find out what the linal result will be of a misunderstanding they had Saturday afternoon Herbert Brannan Jr of 749 Collingswood was loading groceries Into a car at Willrford's Food Mart 4330 Staples when the dog nipped him above an eyet Stevenson director of the Humane Department said later that unless the dog could be found and Isolated tor 12 days the boy would have to undergo a painful series of 14 anti-rabies shots A story in yesterday's Caller-Times quickly produced the own- ITS A LONG LONG WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM Donny and Larry Lyons Joanne and Troy Wernette Inspect hole CHILD-TRAP WARNING Yards of Sinking Homes Riddled With Deep Holes The situation of sinking homes cording to Mrs Wernette fa Westwood Village has sunk to! Jr of 4130 Mistletoe the Veter-s new low in the opinion of resi-lans Administration and then the dents of Mistletoe and Rr Streets City of Corpus Christ! took cor- ings of the ground to determine if there really was an old garbage dump underneath fa the subdivision The yards of three homes built ever an abandoned garbage dump are riddled with large holes Ac-1 FOR SMALL FREEZERS Hinds i 5UC Loins 2o-z5wlbx -ii SH bounds SHC Loin DBiuWs Bcoconu5c PorEt Loins u54Je Canned Hamsu7 YuB'Exeysr'-vA-' KC HEAVY BEEF US CHOICE Half or Whole MmK Minds Loins StfripsiSM lH59 op DSuttfts 'ruV? H39 ESilb Eyes Fifth Suspect Arrested In Roundup at Rockport as is perhaps to sir the ground Owners of the homes have long since abandoned their unpredictable lots leaving sagging gates open Neighbors now have to keep a constant watch to warn children not to play in the lots Many of toe dozen holes are covered with overgrown weeds and bushes Residents in the 4100 block of Mistletoe estimate some of the holes are as deep as 30 feet Gafbage is visible at the bottom of a few and water and slush fill others Neighborhood mothers have put boards over the holes but drainage from rains is constantly enlarging the pits Gas meters fa the back of the lots also have been damaged by the sinking ground According to a Fir street resident one meter broke last year Another one is now almost underground George Austin of 4413 Mistletoe said the corings were taken sometime last summer A few were filled back in but the dirt settled d8m and the holes are showing again he said A city ordinance passed in 1955 regulates all pits inside city limits A pit is defined as a hole of more than one foot in depth Pit permits are Issued only when the pit is protected by a child-proof fence Austin Mrs Wernette and others said they contacted officials at the City Hall Friday who promised to have the yards inspect-that afternoon However city personnel did not come looking the Mistletoe neighbors said FUNERALS Mrs Davidson of Corpus Christi and Mrs Alex Anderson of Brownsville and a son Rodney of Austin Funeral services will be announced by the Cage-Piper Funeral Home of Kingsville Mrs Susie Scott Toups Funeral services for Mrs Susie Scott Toups 003 Antelope will be tomorrow at 9:30 am at the Corpus Christi Cathedral The RL Rev Monsignor Albert Schmidt will officiate The Rev Michael Adams will preach the sermon Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery In Refugio The Rt Rev Monsignor William Oberste will conduct graveside ceremonies A Rosary will be said at 8 pm today at 902 Antelope Mrs Toups died Saturday night in a local hospital after a long illness Survivors include a daughter Mrs daudine Toups Snyder of Corpus Christi and a sister Miss Bridget Scott also 'of Corpus Christi Pallbearers will be II Toups Orion Linney Francis West Mas-ton Murphy all of Refugio Doughty Toups and Edward Dorsey both of Houston Honorary pallbearers will be all old friends of the family Easa John Mousa Em John Mousa 55 owner of Johnny's Grocery and Market at 401 Osage died in a local hospital at 7:30 am yesterday after suffering a heart attack at his home He had been a resident of Corpus Christi for 11 years He was member of Corpus Christi Lodge 189 AM-FM Surviving are his wife Farida five sons Jack with the Army in Missouri Freddie Johnnie Sam-mie and Jimmie all of Corpus Christi three daughters Mrs Nellie Farah of Ramallah Palestine Lelie Mousa and Jeanette Mousa both of Corpus Christi a brother Joseph of Ramallah a sister Mrs Ghanimah Khoury of Ramallah and five grandchildren Mrs Mary Ellen Brophy Mrs Mary Ellen Brophy of 17361 Seventeenth Street was dead on arrival at a local hospital at 8:45 pm Saturday She hjyl suffered a heart attack at her home Mrs Brophy lived In Mobile Ala before moving to Corpus Christi In 1942 She was 79 years old Funeral service will be at 10 am today in the chapel of Maxwell Dunns Funeral Home Burial will be in Rose HH! Cemetery Surviving are two sisters Mrs Mattie Bower and Mrs Florence Fromer both of Corpus Christi and several nieces and nephews! II Howell Is Dead at 69 (Jim) Howell a life-long resident of Nueces County died at his home on Rodd Field Road at 1:15 pm yesterday after a long illness He was 69 Howell was born on the Lau-reles Ranch In 1886 and was a well-known farmer in the Sunshine Community The farm where he died had been his home for 60 years He was a member of the Travis Baptist Church Surviving are a brother A of Corpus Chfisti and four sisters Mrs Nellie Lege of Freeport Mrs Josephine Hemme Mrs Irene Gtty and Mrs Parry all Corpus Christi Funeral services will be In tile chapel of Cage Mills Funeral Home at 2 pm today The Rev A Norris pastor of the Travis Baptist Church and the Rev Christian pastor of the Gardendale Baptist Church will officiate Burial will be In Seaside Memorial Park 64' 5 HINDS HALF OR WHOLE LI ufl 65 BEEF ALL Ml ATS AND CHILLIS CUT WRAPPID MRSsLBp CS A N'B Caller -Ttme News Service ROCKPORT The fifth member of a teenage burglary and theft gang was arrested' early Sunday morning by Deputy Sheriff Sherman Mundine as a step toward cleaning up 15 or more robberies committed fa Rockport since November Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were arrested Saturday Nine of the burglaries occurred last week causing a group of local citizens to request the Com-missianers Court for better police protection The last arrest recovered between 5500 and $600 worth of loot taken by the youths An estimated $1000 worth is still missing Mundine said the teenagers have confessed to breaking into Butchs Grocery Johnson's Fish Co Auto Service Co and Deforrest Marine Construction Co Johnson's Drug Co Mundine's Barber Shop Jackson's Seafood Red and White CROSSWORD DEATHS and Josefina Gusman Caller-Times New Service ALICE Miss Josefina Gusman 89 a life-long resident of Alice died at her residence here at 5 pm Saturday after a short illness Surviving art a half brother Manuel Cavasoa of Alice and several nephews and nieces' Funeral services will bs at 10 am today in SI Catholic Church Burial will be in Old Collins Cemetery Walker-Mora Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Ed Stevens Caller-Times News Service ALICE Ed Stevens 82 a resident of Alice for 48 years died at his home in Alice late Saturday night Bom in Arkansas he moved to Alice in 1910 from Durango Texas He and his brother the late Thomas Stevens built and operated the first electric light plant in Alice in 191L Since that time Stevens had been active in toe real estate business He was a member of the First Methodist Church Surviving are a nephew Stevens of Corpus Christi 'and throe nieces Mrs Cleo Larsen of Los Angeles Calif Miss Inez Stevens of San Antonio and Mrs La vert Mist row of Houston FuneraJ services will be at 4 pm today in the chapel of Moyer Mortuary with the Rev diaries Hardt pastor of the First Methodist Church officiating Burial will be In Alice Fraternal Cemetery Raj Deason Caller-Times New Sendee FALFURRIAS Funeral services for Ray IJeason 56 will be at 2 pm today in the First Baptist Church of Falfurrias The Rev John Littlejohn will officiate Burial will be In Falfurrias Burial Park Deason died at his home here Saturday evening He had been a resident in the county 19 years and an employe of Trinity Gas Corp for 14 years Surviving are his wife Grace two daughters Mrs Goldie Nell Yett of Anaheim Calif and Mrs Wanda Miller of Corpus Christi a son Ben of Edcouch two brothers Deason of Austin and Blake Deason of Stockdale three sisters Mrs Estelle Minor of San Antonio and Mrs Spear and Mrs Virginia Bunker both of Stockdale and four grandchildren Howard-Wmiams Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Clarence Haeger Ciller-Time News Service VICTORIA Clarence Haeger 4L a former resident of Corpus Christi died here Friday after a heart attack Funeral services will be fa Grace Lutheran Church at 3 pm today Burial will be In Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of McBade-Csrruth Funeral Home Surviving' are hie wife Anna Mae two children Clarence Jr and Deborah Ann his mother Mrs Anna Haeger of Carml I1L two sisters Mrs Frederick Hahn of Carml and Mrs Douglas of Falls Church Va and a brother A Haeger of Littleton Colo II Kidd Kidd 82 of 1222 Maryland died yesterday afternoon at his horns after a long Illness He came here from Kingsville about six months ago He was a retired Missouri-Pacific Railroad engineer He was a member of the Masonic Lodge In Kingsville and of the Scottish Rite and Shrine In San Antonio Survivors include his wife Anna of Kingsville two daughters Airs Hiiltgrcn Ingleside Dies Mrs Hulda Hultgren 87 a resident of Ingleskle since 1894 died at her home fa Ingleskle at 4 am Sunday Surviving are two daughters Mrs HulAi Ward of Ingleside and Mrs Ward McCampbell of Corpus Christi a son 1L of Woods-bor a sister Edith Nystrm of Ingleside six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren Funeral services will be at II am tomorrow in the ihapel Cage-Mills Funeral Home The Rev William Hathaway of the Ingleside Methodist Church will officiate and buriil will be In Rose Hill Cemetery They found it then left the yard Store fa Rockport and Hinton's Barbecue According to Mundine the youths may lace federal charges because they attempted to break into the post office at Fulton They are being held on chargee of felony theft and burglary in the Aransas County Jail He said warrants probably will be issued by the grand Jury which will meet in spring session this week Mundine said that a sixteenth tich oticen to with tte armtg ap parently is not connected with the Rockport gang Still unsolved is the theft erf 200 pounds of blasting powder and about 100 caps from the General Geophysical Co a week ago Assisting Mundine in the preliminary investigations and arrests were Leon Vivian special officer of the Texas Cattleman's Association: Dickerson State Highway Patrol Dale Whitten and Goode coastal inspector Hfnpslke Tan at eff ecttnn 38 Fra tsWamoria term SOGkxxnr 41 OnerfoMHk 42 Chief Roman god 44 Lama 46 Vectored 4T Defense 48 Divert SI Msdedw 53 Manieora Bead 53 Rattan 54 AngMbnm wef AS Stern 58 Fetareary 1 8nt4 Yenders PUZZLE FTMSIIES TRAINING Elvira Moreno daughter of Mr and Mrs Jesus Moreno of Pettus has completed an right-week Air Force basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio and has been sent to Travis Air Force Base Calif She was one of four girls who was picked from a class of 73 to be sent to California Miss Moreno is a graduate of Pettus High School TOWN TALK Roger Fearce director of urban renewal for toe city will speak at Monday's meeting of toe Corpus Christi RealEstate Board The meeting will be in the Palm Room of the Nueces Hotel at 12 noon The film "A Vacation Advra tore fa South Texas" will be shown at Monday's meeting of the Corpus Christi Hotel Association The meeting will be at noon in the Terrace Room Annex of (he Robert Driscoll Hotel The meeting will be proceeded by an 11 am session of toe executive committee Tba Mello Tones of Miller IHgh School will entertain at the West Urban Kiwanis dub meeting to-day at 12:15 pm In Pike's Grill The Mothers Club of Incarnate Word Academy will meet at pm today in toe school cafeteria The mothers of all students are urged to attend CRIME ROUNDUP $13 Taken By Knife Wicldcr Raul Tores 2536 Nimltz told police yesterday a man about 26-years-ok! had robbed him of $13 after forcing him at knife point to drive to Cctoe and Leopard Torres' said the man forced him into hie own car at 2841 South Port and told him to drive to co*ke and Leopard When they got there he said the man took his wallet and ran Police said Torres identified the man from police pictures Hs was being sought last night In other police news yesterday Calvin Burlst of 1906 Buffalo told police someone hsj stolen two $1875 defense bonds from the glove compartment of his car while it was parked by Spohn Hospital Saturday night Mrs GaleBreme 1224 Mesquite reported to police the theft of a lady's cost and some bed linen from her home sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning Police said the burglar probably entcfal the house through the back door Police arrested a 17-yeA-old youth they say admitted trying Is break into the Port Brug Store 379 Agnes by smashing the glass in the door Lupe Castanon 1627 Laredo reported the theft of $51 worth of clothing from a bedroom In his home Police said entry was gained through an unlocked window Everett Cura ton 529 Chaae told polids someone had 'taken two hub caps from his iar 83 More stoiant 88 One IT Inatnrt £0 AfQnenee DO Thrall 61 63 Gbft 63 JcQs 64 Unloosened 68 Evfl flanea US GOOD Half or Ava wT Whole Minds Loins Scrips U1I39 Yop Eaotftfs" H29 OSib Eyesra iU49 AC806S 1 Victory syiubtl A Waned tragi JO The cj- SS Boon for the thirsty JSKefarioas STTeetkn 18 Speedy 30 Borieeqwe 3 wds 33 Separation 34 Be fa the sed 35 38 Marne a many kings 30 More ghostly 31 Dessrt relief spat 2 Hot 34 Assist 3T Plata 38aae 30 Cheer 40 lay 41 Visitor pon lMnnce 3 Plane i Slop 4 bright 8 Ftopahr break 6 Moiety Aval She dead heat PGanga -30 Far 11 13 Chop 13 OmrdMfDrial 31 Hooters 33 low land SADtge AMt 38 Task BLneib I 43Attlrea 48'W orradfe TIP 4T Brigand SOfipMtaof BABY Mrg Sorenson Rockport Dies Caller-Times News Sendee ROCKPORT Mrs Sallie Sorenson 88 died early Sunday morning fa an Aransas Pass rest home Born fa Goliad she had lived here 75 years She was a member the Episcopal Church hers and the Eastern Star Lodge Survivors Include a son Victoria a sister Mrs Fannie Lee Perry of Houston and one grandson James Sorenson Jr of Rockport Private funeral services will be at 9 am today at the Cage-Marshall Funeral Home Chapel in Aransas Pass The Rev John DcForrest Jr pastor of Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Corpus Christi will officiate He will be assisted by Harry Carter Episcopal lay minister of Rockport Burial will be in Rockport Cemetgrf Pallbearers will be Paul Sorenson Simon Sorenson John McDavid TajAw Jr Harold Picton and Richard Fox all of Rockport SHIP -NEWS Awwivaia Tus Yurra Barn BB Ha I 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