The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1967 Page: 2 of 8
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Thursday, June 8, 1967
Shiner Gazette—Shiner, Texas
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TELEPHONE MILECSONE —Gov. John Connally holds a gold telephone presented to him at a state
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Bleiers Honored With
Housewarming And
Anniversary Party
Miss Jeanette Mikes
Shower Honoree
Miss Kowalik,
Mr. Simmonds
Are Engaged
The date and place will be
announced later.
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Out-of-State Visitors
Mrs. Ervin Nelson of Alder-
wood Manor, Washington, Mrs.
Tara Higdon of Denison, Texas,
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gerloff of
Moulton were Memorial Day
visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Wehl and Mrs.
Marie Stuter.
The Peach Creek Philosopher Claims
Giving States A Refund On Taxes
Would Start A Chain Reaction
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Ko-
walik of Karnes City announce
the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Patricia Emilie, to Lewis
V. Simmonds Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis V. Simmonds
of Fort Stockton.
Vows will be exchanged Au-
gust 12 in St. Mary’s Catholic
Church in Panna Maria.
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Playing dominoes and con-
versation followed. At a late
hour all enjoyed cake and cof-
fee and departed for their
homes looking forward to next
year’s reunion.
capitol ceremony to commemorate installation of the nation’s 100 millionth telephone. Southwestern
Bell official Bill Holman, center, made the presentation. The governor also received a hand-illum-
inated scroll from Claud H. Gilmer, left, president of the Texas Telephone Association.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sin-
cere thanks and appreciation
for the many kindnesses ex-
tended to us in the passing of
our beloved husband, father
and grandfather, Edwin E.
Pavlicek. We are especially
grateful to Dr. Harvey Renger,
Hallettsville, and to Dr. Pat
Wagner, Shiner, for their care
and attention; to Rev. Thomas
O’Callaghan, Rev. John Hana-
cek, Rev. Charles Carolan and
Rev. Henry Psencik for their
consoling words; to the Kubena
Funeral Home and the pall-
bearers for their attentive ser-
vices. We also wish to thank all
relatives, friends and neigh-
bors who sent flowers, cards,
Mass intentions and food and to
all who helped in any way to
lighten our burden. May God
bless all of you.
Mrs. Edwin Pavlicek
and Family
Before the noon meal, Mrs.
E. A. Schumaker welcomed the
guests and said grace..
The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Marek Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
man Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. John-
nie Marek and Otto Marek Jr.,
served a delicious meal of bar-
becued beef and mutton with
all the tirmmings and refresh-
ments.
After everyone enjoyed the
Austin—While the nation was
celebrating the installation of
its 100,000,000th telephone
May 11, the Texas telephone
industry was looking forward
to making its 5,000,000th
installation sometime later this
year.
The national observance fea-
tured a specially-installed na-
tional conference call linking
President Lyndon B. Johnson
with the governors or their
representatives in 50 states and
Puerto Rico. While the gover-
nors listened, the President re-
ceived a gold Trimline tele-
of enabling a taxpayer to raise
the money for the taxes he’:
already paying—at any rate, tc
get on with this, I pulled out <
copy of The San Antonio Ex-
press I’d been saving to rest my
mind on and the first article i
noticed was talking about taxes
According to it, a lot oi
states are demanding that
Washington return to them a
part of the income taxes they
pay.
Under the proposal, Washing-
ton would return say 5 or 10
per cent of all the Federal in-
come taxes a state’s citizens pay,
and the state could use it as it
sees fit, maybe to raise school
teachers’ salaries or policemen’s I
salaries or, failing that, at least
to enlarge the penitentiary.
I got to thinking about this
and I’m afraid it has some
hitches. In the first place,
since Washington isn’t making
ends meet as it is, the same as
me, if it handed back 10 per
cent of its revenue to the
states, wouldn’t Congress then
just add 10 per cent more on
its take?
Furthermore, if a state got
back 10 per cent, wouldn’t
every county and city in that
state start demanding a refund
on the taxes they pay to the
state?
In turn, wouldn’t the state,
which is having about as much
trouble as me and Washington
in making ends meet, then have
to add 10 per cent more on the
taxes it’s collecting?
Thus the net result would be
a 10 per cent increase in taxes,
all up and down the line, which
wasn’t the aim at all.
Instead of handing refunds
back down the line, from Wash-
ington to the smallest town
and taxing district, has any-
body ever thought of just let-
ting us keep the money in the
first place?
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Ad. Korenek
and Jo Ann, Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Sofka, Donna, Diane and Cathy
spent the weekend in Houston
and attended the Saturday and
Sunday Phillies-Astros games |
in the Dome.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Nelson
arrived by plane in Dallas on
the previous Friday where
they were met by Mrs. Tara
Higdon and daughter, who ac-
companied them to Moulton to
spend a week in the home of
Mrs. Nelson’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Gerloff. Mr. Nelson
spent a few days in Houston.
The Nelsons left for Dallas last
Friday to visit friends before
I leaving Sunday via plane on
their return to Washington.
Mrs. Nelson is the former Miss
Vera Gerloff and a niece of
Mrs. Marie Stuter. Mrs. Nelson’s
last visit to her home was ten
years ago.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kroulik
accompanied by Mrs. Vlasta
Freis of Yorktown were Sunday
visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Anderson in Austin.
On Thursday, May 25, 1967.
Ir. and Mrs. Otto Bleier Jr.,
f 206 Aberdeen, Victoria, were
onored with a party and
ousewarming on the occasion
f their fourth wedding an-
iversary. Mrs. Bleier will be
emembered as the former
oan Hilscher of Yoakum.
The serving table was cov-
ered with a white crocheted
doth over a turquoise under-
ay. It was centered with the
nniversary cake, a three-tiered
vhite-iced confection decorated
vith turquoise roses and green
eaves. Atop the cake was a
arge rose surrounded by four
white candles. Tall white tapers
glowed on either side.
Refreshments of cake, cook-
ies, -sandwiches, olives, pickles,
potato chips, tomato and green
pepper slices, coffee and punch
were served to friends and rel-
atives attending from Corpus
Christi, Shiner, Yoakum and
Victoria. Guests registered in
the original wedding book,
holding small turquoise/flowers.
The couple received many
lovely and useful gifts.
The evening was spent in
playing games and conversation.
Music was furnished for the
occasion by Herbert Wendel,
Otis Shoemaker and Joe Hil-
scher.
Everyone left wishing Otto
and Joan many more happy an-
niversaries and much luck in
their new home.
John Hachbold
Makes Honor Roll
The Blinn College honor roll
for the spring semester in-
cluded 128 students out of an en-
rollment of 1247 or 10% of the
student body. Only 22 students
made a straight “A” record, or
a grade-point ratio of 3.00. To
make the Blinn College honor
roll, a student must carry at
least twelve semester hours of
work, making no failing grades
and earn a grade-point ratio of
2.25.
Among those listed on the
honor roll was John Hachbold,
son of Mr. and Mrs. David A.
Little of Shiner, with a grade-
point ratio of 2.65.
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Attend Commencement
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krause
and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Schramm attended Commence-
ment Exercises in Houston
Wednesday afternoon, May 31,
1967.
Their
grandson, Roger
Schramm, was graduated cum
laude from Lamar High
School. He was active in a
number of school activities and
a member of the Lamar foot-
ball team. In the fall he will en-
ter Tulane University.
That when a father dies the
responsibilities fall immediate-
ly upon the shoulders of the
wife? There are various stages
of adjustment through which
she and her children must pass.
The first and perhaps hardest is
that time immediately follow-
ing the death of her husband.
Insure your life today, pro-
tect your family and provide
for your old age, as you may die
too soon or live too long.
Insure with Pan-American Life
Insurance Co. Joseph Muras,
Gen. Agent. Phone LY 4-3871,
Shiner, Texas 77984. (47-nc)
The VFW Hall in Port La-
vaca was the site of the eleven-
th Marek family reunion held
Sunday, May 28, 1967.
Relatives came from Houston,
Rosenberg, El Campo, Colum-
bus, Lolita, Weimar, Bila Hora,
San Antonio, Hallettsville,
Yoakum, Shiner, Moulton, Vic-
toria, Freeport and Port La-
vaca.
DR. JENNINGS B. COOK, OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted — Lenses Duplicated
CONTACT LENSES FITTED
Office Hours 8:00 to 5:30 — Saturday 8:00 to 12:00
Other Hours by Appointment
Phone: Area Code 713 PR 6-3587 Box 247 Flatonia, Texas
ELKINS 5-10 & 25c STORE I
MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT ELKINS— FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 9-10— BILLIE G. GOETZ, Mgr.
phone and a commemorative
plaque in a joint presentation
from H. I. Romnes, chief
executive officer of the Amer-
ican Telephone and Tele-
graph Co., and H. Dail Holder -
ness, President of the United
States Independent Telephone
Association, on behalf of the
American telephone industry.
In brief ceremonies at the
Capitol building here, Governor
Connally received a gold Trim-
line telephone from Bill Hol-
man, Austin division manager
for Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company, and a hand-il-
luminated scroll from Claud
H. Gilmer, president of Rock-
springs and Nueces Canyon
Telephone Company, Rock-
springs, and president of the
Texas Telephone Association.
The presentations were made in
St. James Parish Hall, Se-
guin, was the scene of a miscel-
aneous shower, honoring Miss
Jeanette Mikes, bride-eiect o.
Harry Engelke Jr., on Sunday
May 21, 1967. Registering the
some 105 guests were Misses
Delores and Kathy Patek.
As the bride-elect entered the
hall with her mother and the
prospective bridegroom’s moth-
er, they were led to their
chairs of honor. Also entering
the hall with the honoree were
her grandmother’s, Mrs. Jim
Patek and Mrs. Chas. Mikes
Sr., both of Shiner. The bride-
elect was presented a white
glamellia corsage and the
mothers and grandmothers
were presented white carna-
tion corsages trimmed in blue.
Miss Debbie Carlstrand, the
chosen maid of honor, welcomed
the guests and read a poem to
the bride-elect. Mrs. Bobby
Hawkins and Miss Joyce Sch-
neider, bridesmaids-to-be, also
read poems to the bride-elect
entitled “A Secret” and “To a
Young Bride.”
The program ended with Miss
Carla Brodt, Miss Dotsy Brodt,
Mrs. James Reiley and Mrs.
Jimmy Coleman singing “Wed-
ding Bells.” Then Miss Dotsy
Brodt sand “Before I Met You”
and “True Love.”
After the program, the bride-
elect opened her many gifts.
Refreshments consisted of
ham sandwiches, chips, mints,
punch, and the shower cake.
Marek Reunion
as a
some
enue
—as I understand it,
nothing this
country or any
part of it, state,
city or school
district, can’t
do if it could
only get more
money, which
fits my situa-
tion too, al-
though I can’t help mentioning
that while politicians are al-
ways hunting for new tax rev-
enue, you don’t see much
thought given to new methods
meal, a meeting was held. Mrs.
E. A. Schumaker presided and
read the minutes of last year’s
reunion. She paid tribute to
the four departed members for
the past year, and also wel-
comed a new generation repre-
sented by Tracy Elaine Herman
of Victoria.
There are five generations
with the oldest, Mrs. Annie Ma-
rek of Hallettsville, being near-
ly 86 years old. Prizes were
awarded to the oldest and |
youngest and to the Bennie
Marek family for traveling
longest distance.
New officers were elected to aH
host next year’s reunion. They
are Er line McGeehee of Yoa-
kum, president; Billie Croh-
ram of Victoria, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Norman Boyd, sec-
retary-treasurer and Melvin
McGeehee of Yoakum, food
chairman.
behalf of the Texas telephone
industry.
In his remarks, Gilmer said
that sometime this year, one of
the 134 Texas telephone com-
panies will place the state’s
5,000,000th telephone in oper-
ation.
Gilmer said “Texas’ phone
growth, particularly during the
post-World War II era, has
been phenomenal.” He cited
these figures to reflect the pat-
tern of this growth.
At the end of the war,
there were only 916,775 busi-
ness and residential phones in
service in the state. By 1955,
about a decade later, there were
2,550,428 and by 1965,
4,503,680.
Since the end of 1965, the
total phone figure has climbed
to 4,864,590, or more than five
times the number in service at
the end of World War II.
In 1947, only 54.5 per cent
of the state’s telephones had
been converted from manual to
dial service. Since that time,
manual service has virtually
been eliminated in Texas with
99.99 per cent of the state’s
telephones now having dial
service.
Gilmer said the Texas tele-
phone industry employs more
than 36,000 men and women to
install, service and maintain
the state’s sprawling and com-
plex communications system.
These employees were paid
more than $195,000,000 in
wages and salaries last year to
make a sizeable contribution to
the economy of the state.
Gilmer, who said the Texas
telephone industry paid $35,-
000,000 in local and state taxes
last year, added:
“As an employer,
and purchaser of
services, the Texas telephone
industry has been privileged to
play a role in the industrial
and economic growth of this
dynamic state.
“With this growth, we have
been able to provide the finest
quality of communications ser-
vices at the lowest possible
cost to the customer. We shall
continue to do so in the future.”
Capt. W. E. Kowalik
Awarded Air Medal
WITH U. S. COMBAT AIR
FORCES, Vietnam—U. S. Air
Force Captain Walter E. Ko-
walik, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter A. Kowalik of Rt. 1
Hobson, Texas has received
three awards of the Air Medal
at Da Nang AB, Vietnam.
Captain Kowalik was dec-
orated for his meritorious
achievement as a C-123 Pro-
vider aircraft commander in
Southeast Asia. He was cited
for his outstanding airmanship
and courage on successful and
important missions under
hazardous conditions.
The captain is scheduled for
reassignment to Webb AFB,
Texas, as a member of the Air
Training Command which con-
ducts hundreds of specialized
courses to provide technically-
trained personnel for the na-
tion’s aerospace force.
Captain Kowalik, a graduate
of Karnes City High School,
received his commission in 1960
upon completion of the Reserve
Officer Training Corps pro-
gram at Southwest Texas State
College where he earned his
B.B.A. degree.
Editor’s note: The Peach
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Rt. 3,
Shiner gets off on taxes this
week, his letter reveals.
Dear editar:
I Was sitting out here on
this Johnson grass farm trying
public service to think up
new sources of tax rev-
which wouldn’t affect me
there’s
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Sedlmeyer, Angeline. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1967, newspaper, June 8, 1967; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304609/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.