Moreover, he denounced the party as a communist threat and blocked federal funds for Zavala County programs.
Cartoonist E. C. Segar who created the spinach-eating Popeye received a letter of appreciation from the Winter Garden Chamber of Commerce, thanking him for his support of Spinach in the American diet.
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Crystal City in Zavala County in south Texas also calls itself the "Spinach Capital of the World" and it too has a Popeye statute in the downtown.
Damián Massanet also recorded them, in 1691, as one of six groups of Indians encountered along a stream called "Caramanchel"; this appears to correspond with today's Comanche Creek in the southwestern part of Zavala County.