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f 'Martines, charged
ering Joe’s Chevrolet
Moulton February 10,
Moulton Friday
to Hallettsville
S4|es
was arrested in
and brought
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VOLUME 84
NUMBER 48
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1957
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS
OF SERVICE TO ALL
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READ BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER LAVACA COUNTY NEWSPAPER
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Scout Magazine
Lavaca
of boys tak-
of
of
To Be Given Priests
said the
ROUNDUP
Satur-
of
prize winners were 1st
40
report-
Sheriff
on the
having
a parked
belonging
of the two wrecks came
Saturday evening at the
“Y” just west of the
in the County Court Room to
discuss the possibility of obtain-
ing acreage for purple hull and
The Agricultural Committee
of the Hallettsville Chamber of
The following traffic viola-
tions were listed by the Texas
Highway 1’atrol for the past
70,000
fell far
of their
taking Boys
.lune 30 will
The staff of the Brahma Stampede, Hallettsville High School paper, last week received
pins identifying them with the weekly school paper. Members of the staff received bronze
pins with the word "Staff" inscribed on them while the editor received a gold plated pin with
the inscription "Editor". Staff members receiving pins, the number of years they have served
on the staff and the class they represent include: seated, left to right: Ann Mathies, senior,
typist, one year; Patricia Lorfing, senior, assistant editor, two years; Billy Jones, joke editor,
senior, two years; Lillie Jo Christen, senior, editor in chief, two years; Marlyn Grones,
senior, sports editor, one year; standing: Albert Kahanek, art editor, senior, two years; Doro-
thy Nance, art editor, senior, two years; Lillie Smolik, society editor, senior two years; Ann
Blahuta, fashion editor, senior, two years; Kay Keil, feature editor, freshman, one year;
Don Minear, assistant, junior, three years; and sponsor Jack Miller.
A combination farewell and I
welcoming party honoring two I
Catholic priests is scheduled for
7:30 p. m, Tuesday, February I
26 at the Sacred Heart Parish
Hall.
Damage to the cars was $100
to the Ford; $100 to the Chev-
rolet and some $10 to the fend-
er of the pickup.
PATROLMEN
INVESTIGATE
TWO WRECKS
of El Campo, with the
Hll Gun Club awarding
the prizes and KULP
SIX CARS DAMAGED IN TWO
AUTO ACCIDENTS WITHIN CITY
LESS THAN WEEK LEFT TO
FILE FOR CHY OFFICES
in-
on
na. speeding 66 mph., Highway
77A east of Yoakum.
DISPOSAL PLANT BID ACCEPTED
AT SPECIAL MEET OF COUNCIL
■I confitrucuon of the plant
Wgin gntit a work
’-W^|L*w .* fir
Renger. Renger was stopped at
the stop sign at the time his car
was hit.
Damage listed in the wreck
Tex Tan To Sponsoi CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
Award To Promote SPONSOR PEA PLANTING MEET
held Tuesday, April 2.
The terms of Mayor M. I. Bor-
ka and Aldermen N. B. Fehren-
kamp and Edmund Hajovsky ex-
pire this year and all three in-
cumbents are expected to file
for reelection before the dead*
line is past
The meeting was called by the
Chamber following a meeting
last week with .1 E Swindell Jr.,
buyer for the Dixie Bean and :
The San Antonio Archdioces-
an Unit of the National Catholic
Music Educators Association
was host at a band festival pre-
sented by the Catholic schools
of the Archdiocese of San An-
tonio in which the local Sacred
Heart School Band participated.
The festival was held in the
auditorium of Our Lady of the
Lake College and began at 3:00
p. m. Sunday, February 24.
The Sacred Heart Band play
ed two selections, Harold M.
Johnson’s “The Prince and the
Pauper” and Art Dedrick's .
“Space Cadets”.
A 56 piece all star Catholic
high school band was chosen }
from members of the partici- !
pating bands and appeared as a |
specialty at the festival.
Ten members from the Sac I
red Heart Band were selected
to appear with the all star band,
namely, clarinets, Johnny Smol-
ik, Mary Carol Strauss and Gil
bert Melnar; alto saxophones,
David Rothbauer, Henry Joe
Repka and Gus Strauss; bari-
tone horn, Mary Ann Grafe;
cornets, Arlyn Kloesel and Rob-
ert Svetlik; and percussion, Ver-
nell Haas.
Numbers played by the all
star band were “Band U. S. A.”
by Forrest L. Buchtel directed
by John Michna; “American
Folk Rhapsody” by Clare E.
Grundman directed by M. E.
Rodman; “Carnival Day In New
Orleans” by John J. Morrissey
directed by Leo R. Green and
“Star Spangled Banner” ar
rangement by Susa-Damrosch
directed by Herbert J. Kloesel.
Mr. Kloesel was also a member
of the all star band committee.
Nine bands from high schools
in the San Antonio Archdiocese
participated in the festival, >ix | confined for two days, being
bands from San Antonio, and I moved to his home Friday morn-
bands from Castroville, Schul- ing where he will be confined
enburg and Hallettsville. ' for several days.
Wilbur Minear, manager
the Waldrep Creamery of Shin-
er received painful burns when
a cleanout plug on a boiler blew
out Wednesday morning about
10:30, spraying scalding water
over his left leg and his feet.
Minear had released the steam
on the boiler preparatory to
cleaning it out and was working
around it while the boiler was
cooling off when the accident
occurred. He was treated at the
Wagner Hospital where he was
Hermes was an insurance in-
vestigator employed by the
menean Service Bureau. Inc.
San Antonio.
Mr. Hermes was a brother
Paul Hermes of Koerth.
First
at 6:05
Shiner
Paul Janak Store and involved
a 1950 Ford Coach driven by
Claude V. Black of Houston and
a 1946 Plymouth sedan driven
by James E. Mozisek of Hous
ton.
According to the investigat-
ing officers, both cars were tra-
veling west and Mozisek attemp-
ted to pass Black at the-inter-
section and then turn onto 90A
in front of Black toward Shin-
er. The rear bumper of the Ply-
mouth caught the front fender
of the Ford ripping the fender
off. No injuries were listed in
the xnishap.
Mozisek was filed on ofr driv-
ing left of center stripe with-
in 100 feet of intersection.
At 10. p4D. the same night
the Highway Patrol was called
(Continued on Rage Four)
The Texas Highway Patrol
vestigated two car wrecks
the highways of Lavaca County
over the week end involving
three cars, with one driver be-
ing filed on for a traffic viola-
tion.
wagon; $75 to the 1948 Ford j leaving of youths from the land
and anout $15 to the pickup. No ..... •- 1
injuries were listed.
At 6:00 p. m. another three
car crash occurred on East Sec-
ond Street just east of the inter-
section of Highway 77 when a
1951 Ford driven by Palma L.
Schott of Pledger, Texak hit a
1946 Tudor Chevrolet causing
the Chevrolet to hit
International pickup
to Jim Pogue.
Constable Renger
Ford was traveling west on Sec-
ond Street and that the Chevro-
Sacred Heart
Band Takes Part
In SA Festival
For too many years, 16 to be
exact, the police force of the
nation’s largest city. New York,
followed a “no publicity” policy
about George Metesky, the man
who bombed public places be-
cause of a grudge against r.
former employer.
Then, the police were forced
to change the policy. The activi-
ties of the so-called Mad Bomb-
er were considered serious
enough for the public to be told.
The result was that the public
(including such newspapers as
the New York Journal Ameri-
can, radio and television) pitch-
ed into the search and George
Metesky, a tragic figure, was in
confinement where he could no
longer harm himself or society.
To us, this again proves that
if you tell the public, the public
will respond. As it was express-
ed by the Wall Street Journal:
“We never did think very much
of the idea that the less the pub-
lic knows about public affairs
the better off the public is.”
\ And, as an afterthought we
think that George Metesky'g cap-
ture can be traced in great part
to the interest shown in the case
by the New York newspaper*
which offers an interesting point
of study to those critic* who
maintain that crime stories
should not be reported.
Large Bobcat
Caught On
Schaefer Place
Shiner Creamery
Manager Burned
In Accident
Appell's Hill
Prize Winners
Mexico City to fulfill Our Lady's
request to build a church on the
spot of her appearance He told
his audience that even after
hundreds of years of use, her
picture, painted on coarse cloth
similar to a burlap bag, was still
as clear and bright as it was the
first day, although it has never
been retouched in any way.
Leading c hemists have ex
amined the painting but have
not been able to determine what
ingredients were used to pre-
pare the paint and what keeps
the picture in perfect condition
although exposed to light con-
tinuously for hundreds of years,
protected only by a piece of
glass in the frame holding it.
The glass also has a legend be-
hind it. Bishop Leven said that
once the altar in the church in
which the picture is displayed
was destroyed by a bomb. Al-
though hanging directly above
the atar, the glass covering the
picture was undamaged.
Ten prizes were given
day night to the best masked
at the appreciation dance at Ap-
pelt’s Hill Hall. The dance was
sponsored by Radio Station
KULP
Appelt
six of
four.
The
Jeannette and Charles Henne-
ke representng the King and
Queen of the Gun Club, receiv-
ing $2.00 from the Gun Club
and $1.50 certificate from the
City Bakery by KULP; 2nd. Bev-
erly Werner representing the
Statue of Liberty, $1.50 cash
from Appelts Hill and $3 00 in
groceries from Buceks by KULP
3rd Delores Henneke represent
ing KULP, $1.00 cash, Appelts
Hill and a certificate from the
City Bakery for $1.50 by KULP:
4th Judy Svetlik and Barbara
Appelt as the Singers, |1.50
from Appelts Hill; 5th, Little
Elvis Presley, portrayed by Dan-
iel Balzer, 75c from Appelts
Hill; 6th. Marvin Holik received
75c from Appelts Hill for his
portrayal of a dwarf and 7th
went to Wilbur Bother as Big
Elvis Presley. He received 83.00
in cleaning from Jahn*s Clean-
ers.
Pea Company of Athens.
During his visit here Mr.
Swindell pointed out that the
market for peas this year would
probably be stronger than it was
in 1956 since the drought cut
production heavily. He said the
normal crop for South Texas
ranged from 40,000 to
bags, but last year’s crop
below this figure.
Mr. Swindell said
County soil is ideal for pea pro-
duction since it has been found
that a sandy loam is best suited
for the crop,, and that he be-
lieved farmers in Lavaca Coun-
ty would be able to produce bet-
ter than 800 pounds of peas to
the acre with suitable weather
conditions.
“We would like to see as
9qq [ many farmers as possible plant
[ peas this year,” Mr. Swindell
was i said, “and those planting peas
Gor- : can be assured there will be a
MOULTON
Friday Highway 77. west of
Hallettsville. Lloyd H. Brunner,
i Route Flatonia, passing in a
'no passing zone: Highway 95,
isouth ot Shiner. James F. Fields,
i 7 oakum, speeding 71 mph.
James R. Wilson,
a no
and
where he was jailed. The arrest
was made by Constable Daniel
Koranek who turned Martinez
over to Deputy Sheriff Bill Kort-
wig with Kortwig bringing Mart-
inez to Hallettsville.
Martinez had been the object
of a state wide pickup after he
broke into the Moulton garage
and stole a Chevrolet coupe he
had left there for repairs. He
was seen in Waelder the night
of February 10 and since that
time had apparently dropped
from sight until his arrest Fri-
day.
Sheriff Theo Long said the
arrest of Martinez came about
when a car left the wanted man
out near the Frank Barta Store
at Moulton and Martinez started
walking down the road, acting
in a suspicious manner. A clerk
at the store noticed Martinez
and notified the law officers,
bringing about his arrest.
Sheriff Long said Martinez
had just recently been picked
up by the chief of police of
Kingsville on a speeding charge
and had bpen fined $30. Marti-
nez told the police his folks liv-
ed, in Houston and while the
Kingsville officers were attempt-
ing to get a call through to
Houston, Martinez slipped out
of the police station and made
a getaway in the Chevrolet, lat-
er abandoning the car near
Alice where it was found in the
bushes by gie sheriff of Jim
Wells County.
The Chevrolet driven by Mart-
inez was a stolen car belonging
to Carl D. Lewis of Lubbock.
The car had never been
ed stolen, according to
Long. The license plates
car were also stolen,
been taken from a Mercury.
In making his escape at
Kingsville, it was reported that
the police there had taken the
keys from the car when they
picked up Martinez, and that
the man had started the car
without the keys when he slip-
ped from the police station.
BISHOP LEVEN
SPEAKS AT
KC BANOUET
Martin J. Hermes
Killed In Wreck
At Robstown
A bobcat, weighing about
pounds was caught by a govern-
ment trapper Thursday night on
the W. R. Schaefer farm near
Yoakum, the cat being displayed
here Friday afternoon by Mr
Schaefer.
Mr. Schaefer said the bobcat
was one of three large animals
roaming on his place and stated
that he believed a still larger
one would be caught within the
next few days.
The bobcat brought in Friday
was a male. Mr. Schaefer said
J the cuts have been Wiling deer
1 on his place.
: hay that is considered next to
alfalfa. Pea hay. he said, is de-
. manding top hay prices. Besides
a cash crop, Mr. Swindell point-
! ed outUhat peas are a soil build-
; i ing legume, a crop that needs
very little attention. He said
that best results are obtained
when not less than 25 pounds of
seed peas per acre are planted.
j During the past two weeks,
| members of the Chamber of
| Commerce agriculture commit-
i fee have been meeting with
i farmers in various communities
I m Lavaca County explaining the
. j proposed pea planting program.
■o---------------
Less than a week remains for
aspirants to the posts of city
aiderman and mayor to file for
a place on the ballot and up to
noon Saturday no applications
had been received by City Sec-
retary Charles Patek. Deadline
for filing is midnight Saturday,
March 2, with the election to be
Mrs Martha Hermes of
Roseborough. San Antonio,
in a critical condition at a
pus Christi hospital Sunday aft ! market for the crop since there
er a traffic accident in which !are several buyers in Texas
. , , , land the market would be
her .husband, Martin Josepn „ ,, „ , „
very competitive. Mr. Swindell
Het mes was killed said there was no guarantee as
The two car collision occurred 1 price and the peas would be
in Robstown Saturday night. } bought 011 a Sratle basis.
Also seriously hurt were the; Swindell said be believed
occupants oi the other car, Juan farmers in Lavaca County who
Trevino, 30, and Jose Garza,! pjan^e(j peas wou[(j realize $50
both <»t Robstown. or better per acre, plus the pea
Tuesday. February 26, 7:30
0 m Regular drill night, Hal-
lettsville Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment. Fire Station.
Tuesday, February 26 at 7:30
Chunk- fllalAiiitt -
The percentage
j ing Boys Life in the Delafa Dis-
trict (De Witt, Lavaca and Fay-
I ette Counties) is 32 per cent or
; 245 subscriptions out of 757
Delafa is
I fourth from the top in percent-
age of boys taking the magazine.
The Delafa District won the
Top Hands Award for 1956, and
it can win the Tex Tan Boys
Life Award, if everyone will
pitch in together and put the
district on top. It’s a sure bet
that if you take the magazine for
one year, you will continue to do
so from then on. The magazine
designed for your boy will help
him to read, and it also has pro-
gram helps for the unit leader.
Boys Life is a monthly maga-
zine for all boys, published by
the Boy Scouts of America. It
is sold at a reduced or conces
sion rate of $1.50 per year to
registered members of the Boy
Scouts of America. In addition,
it makes available the best of
fiction, comics, sports science.
I and other boy interest subjects,
Honor guests at the party will
be Rev. Henry V. Hilscher, who
is leaving Sacred Heart, and
Rev. Randolph J. Gronle, who
will take his place here. Rev.
Hilscher is going to St. Cecilia’s
in San Antonio, taking Rev
Gronle’s post, the two having
switched stations in the diocese.
While an assistant at Sacred
Heart. Rev. Hilscher was very j
active in work for the church, I
as well as the school, serving al- |
so in the capacity of athletic di Sw< < t Home, passing in
rector at SHS. Among other dur-1 passing zone. Highway 77A east
ies he also served as assistant, i {q Yoakum: Jack Safarick, Ed-
to Rev. Henry Psencik in the St
Mary’s and Witting parishes.
to seek work in cities in what
he termed “the erosion of young
people” and said that the de-
population of the country re-
presented one of our greatest
problems.
For the major point of his ad-
dress. faith, Bishop Leven out-
lined in detail the Miracle of
Our Lady of Guadalupe, telling
of her appearance to a poor
Mexican boy on a mountain out-
side Mexico City.
He told of the boy's vision and as scoutcraft, eampcraft, hobby,
his efforts to see the bishop at I and craft skills into the nands of
Mexico City to fulfill Our Lady's Cub Scouts. Boy Scouts and Ex-
plorers
Each scouter in the district
can help bring this magazine to
the boys in their units by ex-
plaining to the parents what the
Boys Life Magazine has to offer.
have ten days to begin work
I after the work order is issued.
A. T. Thompson Jr. of San An-
tonio will be the engineer on the
project and Van H. Howard Sr.
I of San Antonio, is the physical
agent.
Farewell And
Welcoming Party
Most Rev. Stephen A. Leven,
I Auxiliary Bishop of San An
tonio, was honor guest and
‘principal speaker at the ladies
night banquet held at the Parish
jHall Wednesday night. February
20. The banquet is an annual
affair of Father Mathis Council
of the Knights of Columbus.
The program was opened with
the singing of “America” follow-
ed by the opening prayer by
Bishop Leven. The banquet meal
was served by the band commit- ,
[tee of Sacred Heart School. Gus |Capitol Area Council a pair of
J Strauss, past state deputy of I boots. The district having the
the K of C served as master of I greatest percentage
ceremonies and Robert Pesek, (total membership
deputy grand knight of the local Life Magazine by
council, introduced the guests, receive the boots.
Members of the Sacred Heart I
(School Choral Club and Band
furnished t h e entertainment. I
Very Rev. Alois J. Morkovsky
spoke briefly preceding the ad-
dress by Bishop Leven. Joe F. i. . , , ,.
Leopold, grand knight, presided. \ 0 a *?tm )'rs lp'
and also spoke briefly before
benediction by Rev. Morkovsky.
j In his opening remarks Bishop
I Leven complimented the people
1 of the parish on the work they
I have done in both church and
I school and noted the necessity
I of additional work to be done
Six cars were damaged in|amounted to $125 on the station}He also noted with concern the
two separate accidents in the
City of Hallettsville Saturday,
both accidents involving three
cars, according to Constable
Bill Renger, who investigated.
Renger said the first of the
two mishaps occurred at 2:00
p.m. Saturday at the intersection
of East First Street and High-
way 77 at the Paul Schroeder
Texaco Service Station corner.
Involved in the accident was a
1940 Ford pickup driven bv
Frank Woytek who was travel-
ing west on First Street and
when entering the highway hit
la 1948 Ford driven by Patricia
Ann Haas traveling south on I let started rolling forward from
j the highway. The pickup hit the the curb into the path of the
front of the car with the rear I Ford with the front bumper hit-
bumpe rand then skidded a-Hing the front bumper of the
i cross the highway to slam into Chevrolet, causing the two ve-
tlic front end of a 1956 Ford I hides to slam into the right
[station wagon, driven by Paul [rear fender of the pickup.
The bid of Clyde Smith of order is issued by the city, which
Austin in the amount of $81, I is expected to be issued in the
586.00 for the installation of early part of March. Smith will
equipment and construction of
the disposal plant for the City
of Hallettsville was accepted at
a special meeting of the City
Council Friday afternoon. The
acceptance of Mt. Smith’s bid
was made after investigation by
Van H. Howard Jr, of San An
tonio, who is representing the
c*v In legal matters pertaining
to the plant.
Smith’s bid was one of the
three low bids received by the
nty earlier this month.
A corttract for the work be
’ween Smith ahd the Council
'’ ill probably be signed next
Wk after the council passes an
ordinance authorizing th* work
Tex Tan of Yoakum, famous
for its leather products, has ICommerce this week announced
joined hands with the Capitol Pla^ a meeting Friday night
Area Council, to promote the
subscription to Boys Life, the of
} ficial magazine of the Boy Scouts blackeye peas. The time of the
of America. This award will belmeetmg has been set for 8 00
'called the Tex Tan Boys Life P- m
Award.
i In the interest of wholesome
i reading for more boys, Leland
i Tucker, sales manager of the
boot department of Tex Tan,
’will present to the district com-
| missioner and district executive
; in the fifteen county area of
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