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Che Ta Gramge Juurnal
IOC A COPY
The Newspaper with a Purpose - Since 1880
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NUMBER 14
MONDAY, FEB. 16, 1970
VOLUME 91
UTO ACCIDENTS CLAN 5
Mueller Attends Lutheran
Conference in Denver
LIVES OVER WEEKEND
personnel concerning con-
church.
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LaGrange School
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Lauded
Health-Care
Assembly Set
MEETING
NOTICES
Commissioners
Court Meets
WESSELS NAMED
BEAUTIFICATION
DISTINGUISHED
CLINIC SET FOR MAR. 3
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NEW CLUB SET UP
IN LA GRANGE
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LOCAL SORGHUM GROWERS
GIVEN AWARDS
Local Man's
Step-father
Succumbs
Candidates
For AF
Academy Apts.
IMPROVEMENTS IN
MAIL DELIVERY
Pickle says the title for the
proposed post office site in
La Grange has been cleared
and plans can now progress
through the planning stage.
However, Pickle said, “I
am disappointed that the con-
struction cutback hasaffec-
The Americas Legion and
Ladies Auxiliary will have
their regular meeting in the
Legion Hall on Thurs., Feb.
19, at 7:30 P.M. All memb-
ers are asked to be present.
Live Oak Farms of near La
Grange and Warrenton.
The La Grange Hermann
Sons Lodge No. 8 will meet
Thursday night, Feb. 19, at
7:30 in the Lodge Hall.
A new organization for
sports car enthusiasts, The
La Grange MustangersClub,
has been set up In LaGrange,
and membership is open to
anyone interested in car ral-
lies, caravans, and outings
and other events that attract
motoring buffs including a
thing called a gymkhaus.
The club was organized
Monday night, February 9,
under auspices of Ford Na-
tional Council of Mustang
pavement and it skidded into
the opposite bound traffic
lane and slammed broadside
into the oncoming car driven
by Hubert Willis, 64, of Aus-
tin. Both drivers were kil-
led, as well as the 62-year-
old wife of Thomas, Mrs.
Madge Thomas.
Justice of the Peace Har-
vey Albers held the inquest
The Texas winners recei-
ved their awards--handsom-
ely mounted miniature train-
cars and plaques—at a ser-
ies of award luncheons Feb.
11-13 at Amarillo, Lubbock,
Richardson, andCorpusCh-
risti.
The following production
figures and crop manage-
ment techniques were repor-
ted for the Jecmeneks: ma-
jor variety, NK 222; irr/dry
acres, 70-D; total yield, 1
carload; and /acres seeded,
may also be needed in other
instances.
The fact that fewer pers-
ons will be calling at post
offices for their mail will
not alter the independent
status of any of the poet of-
fices where the service ch-
ange is provided.
Gary Graham, Gary Mato-
cha, and Lawrence, Clar-
ence, and Melvin Sklenarik,
Transportation was pro-
vided by Frank Guenther,
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sklenar-
ik, Mr. and Mrs. Justin Bar-
tos, Jr., and Mrs. Adolph
Matocha. Troop 203 is sp-
onsored by the La Grange
V.F.W.
Mr. Pat Lohmann died in
Houston on February 12 at
the age of 58 years. He is
the step-father of Gary Ro-
berts, husband of Pat Pope
of La Grange. Funeral ser-
vices were held Saturday af-
ternoon, February 14, in Ok-
lahoma City.
and ruled death at the scene
for all three persons.
Their deaths bring to five
the number of per sons killed
on Fayette County roadways
in 1970.
The accident occurred se-
ven miles east of the scene
where the two Lee County
youths were killed Saturday
night.
This is the first year the
Trainload and Carload Gro-
wer awards have been offer-
ed. Purpose of the program,
according to Northrup King
officials, is to call attention
to the fact that the new grain
sorghum hybrids are rapidly
becoming one of the nation’s
major grain crops.
Mr. Lee MueUer, Jr., lo-
cal representative of Ame-
rican Amicable Life Insur-
ance Company, recently re-
turned from Denver where
he attended a Conference of
District Presidents of the
American Lutheran Church.
Mr. Mueller was one of se-
veral young men from vari-
ous parts of the United Sta-
tes who were invited to at-
tend the meeting as resource
The second accident killed
all three occupants ofthetwo
vehicles involved just west
of Carmine on Hwy. 290 Sun-
day morning around ten o’-
clock.
Highway patrolman A. F.
Hall, who investigated, said
that the two cars hit nearly
head-on during a rainstorm.
One of the drivers, Fred Th-
omas, 66, of Houston, lost
control of his car on wet
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Local Boy
Scouts Have
Camp Out
Boy Scout Troop No. 203
of La Grange camped at the
Van Wart Ranch near West
Point the past weekend, Feb.
14 and 15. During this time
thy had an eight mile hike,
knote tying contest, water
boiling contest, and cooking.
Those Scouts who partici-
pated with Scoutmaster Leo
Wick and assistant Ed Hen-
derson were: Explorer Sc-
outs, Mark Graham and Ri-
chard Wagner; regular Sc-
outs, Paul Bartosh, Justin
Bartos, Jimmy Guenther,
Glen Smith, Larry Bippert,
Theatre Group
Organized in
Schulenburg
An industrious group of ci-
tizens from the Schulenburg
area have organized Back-
stage, Inc., a non-profit or-
ganization to bring various
forms of entertainment and
cultural events to this part
The La Grange High Sc-
hool was given high praise
in a recent letter from the
University of Texas to LHS
principal H. C. Giese. The
letter reads as follows:
"Dear Mr. Giese: As I
toid you on the phone, Ge-
orge T. Schaefer received
the highest honor that can
be bestowed on a graduating
student in the College of En-
gineering at the University
of Texas. He is the recipi-
ent of the Hamilton Award.
Only one award is given each
costumes are superb. The
play is a rollicking 16th Cen-
tury comedy and will be per-
formed in the Schulenburg
High School Theatre.
The tickets are $1.50 and
$1.00 and are available in La
Grange from the Chamber of
ted our pesttoffice.We need Commerce office. .
ed and advertse . __a.______
for bids and getthe construe- -
Because of his fine record
in the fall of 1969, Clarence
Wessels of Rutersville has
been designated a "Disting-
uished Student" at Texas
A4M University. Clarence
was among those honor stu-
dents who compiled a 3.25
grade point ratio or better.
He is a graduate of La
Grange High School and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Wessels of Rutersville.
Postmaster W.P. Freytag
said today that a new order
from Postmaster General
Winton M. Blount will mean
substantial improvements in
mail delivery services.
Postmaster General Bl-
ount has advised the local
postmaster of provisions of
a new order making home de-
livery services available for
the first time to 4 million
Americans.
The service improvement
applies to persons served
out of 18,700 first, second
and third class post offices
over the country that do not
have city delivery services.
Affected are those postal
customers living more than
persons to die on Lee County
highways this year. Miss
Proske was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Proske
of Giddings.
uring company.
The second presentation
will be "Gammer Gurton’s
Needle” and will be produ-
ced, directed and played by
members of Backstage,Inc.,
on Feb. 26-27-28. The pro-
duction will be as professio-
nal as months of rehearsal
can make it. The sets and
JIM DRAB
PASSES AWAY
Funeral services for Jim
Drab, 62, of Houston were
held at 10:00 A.M. Friday,
February 13, at the Knesek
Chapel in Fayetteville with
continued services at the
St. John’s Catholic Church.
Rev. Ben Mazurkiewicz of-
ficiated, and burial was in
the church cemetery under
direction of Koenig Funeral
Home.
Mr. Drab, born on April
4, 1907, in Fayetteville, pag
sed away February 10 in Ho-
uston.
Survivors include his wife
Annie of Houston; two daugh-
ters, Delores and Patricia
Drab, both of Houston; five
sons, Daniel, Bennie, Isado-
re, Jimmy, and David Drab,
4" of-Houston; two sisters,
Mrs. Frances Orsak of Hal-
lettsville and Mrs. Angeline
Mikeska of Caldwell; one
brother, Benno Drab of Oak-
Six District Presidents
and other church officials
including the Assistant to the
President of the American
Lutheran Church were in at-
tendance.
Grange was informed Tues- । I
temporary problems of the । [day, February 10, that she is I I
“Last semester the reci-
pient of this award was Har-
vey E,Mitschkewhoalsowas
a graduate of your high sc-
hool. This is the first time
in our history that two stud-
ents from the same high sc-
hool have won this outstan-
ding award. It is a coincident
that these were concurrent
semesters.
"It is our feeling here that
the record demonstrated by
these two men is a direct re-
flection of the high school
training received by both of
these students. Therefore,
we commend you and the tea-
chers from your high school
for the excellent jobtheyare
doing in training these young
men and women in their bas-
ics. We join you in your pride
of this outstanding record.
"I hope that I will have the
pleasure of shaking hands
with you and meeting with
some of your teachers in
some not too future time.
"Yours most sincerely,
John J. McKetta, Executive
Vice-Chancellor for Acade-
mic Affairs."
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Two South Texas commun-
ities, La Grange and Luling,
have already responded to
an announcement made by
the South Texas Chamber
of Commerce last week of
the availability of a new se-
ries of clinic-type programs
on local beautification.
La Grange will be the site
of the first clinic, on March
3, with the local Jaycees ch-
apter acting as sponsors.
The decision to use the
chinic program to begin a
city - wide beautification
campaign was made at the
local group’s last scheduled
meeting, where South Texas
Chamber assistant general
manager Phil Moseley pre-
sented the outline of the new
program.
Luling's clinic is set for
March 5.
The regional chamber’s
TRUSTEES
TO MEET
The Board of Trustees of
the La Grange Independent
School District will meet in
regular session in the school
board meeting room at 167
South Jackson Street, La
Grange, at 6:00 P.M. on Tu-
esday, February 17.
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars will meet Tuesday
night, February 17, at 7:30.
Refreshments will be serv-
ed.
land, California; and eight.
grandchildremmie
By UT
semester to the engineering
student with the highest
grade point average in the
College.
LA GRANGE, FAYETTE CO., TEXAS
tion underway,” he added.
Pickle said he intends to
keep pressing to get La Gr-
ange on a high priority list.
“I have urged the Washing-
ton Post Office officials to
keep our application under
constant and continual rev-
iew.” “La Grange was ap-
proved before the freeze
went into effect and I know
our case can stand on its.
merits."
"Although the freeze may
be lifted this summer, I am
urging we be clearedjorac-
tion before then. It artcu-
larly distresses me that the
Post Office Department only
last week approved 26 mil-
lion dollars for the Dallas fa-
cility and our request is for
a tiny fraction of that am-
ount,” the lawmaker added.
A&M STUDENT
a quarter mile away from
these offices and less than
half a mile away. Persons
living less than half a mile
away previously had not been
provided this service.
To get the new service it
is only necessary that those
living in the eligible areas
ask their postmasters to
provide it, and a majority of
those to be served must want
the home service.
Under Mr. Blount*s order,
those living less thana quar-
ter mile from the post office
will continue to pick up their
mail at these offices.
"But, the postmaster not-
ed, that’s no more than a few
blocks. This order, howev-
er, will make the home deli-
veries available wherever
desired by the majority of
those living beyond a quarter
mile.”
“This distance factor can
be significant for much of the
year in areas where severe
weather conditions prevail;
in areas where large numb-
ers of older per sons are liv-
ing, or in more remote sec-
tions where even a Utt le dis-
tance may mean a lot in
terms of travel difficuities."
The expansion of services
should be virtually complete
in all of the affected deliv-
ery service areas--under
actions taken by postal reg-
ional offices, acting on rec-
ommendations of local post-
masters—by Feb. 1, 1971.
It will be accomplished pr-
incipally by adding delivery
stops to already existing ru-
ral delivery routes, or by ex-
panding the area served by
some shorter rural route for
the purpose, and, a limited
number of new rural routes
LAST RITES
HELD FOR
MISS HELWEG
Funeral services for Miss
Anna Helweg, 84, were held
at 2:00 P.M, Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 10, in Shelby Lutheran
Church with Rev. Don D. VI-
asak of Shelby officiating.
Burial was in the Shelby Ce-
metery under direction of
Koenig Funeral Home.
Miss Helweg passed away
February 9 in Fayette Me-
morial Hospital.
She was born la Shelby on
October 30, 1885, a daughter
of C.A,W. and Mary Zander
Helweg, and was a lifelong
resident of the Shelby com-
munity.
Surviving are a sister,
Miss Marie Helweg, and a
brother, Albert Helweg, both
of Shelby.
More than 200 leading
Texas sorghum growers--
including Leonard and Alvin
Jecmenek of La Grange-
have received Trainload and
Carload Sorghum Grower
awards from Northrup, King
4 Co., a^jpart of a new natio-
nal program sponsored by
the Minneapolis-based seed
firm to honor an exclusive
group of 300 large-volume
grain sorghum producers.
The Texas winner sprodu-
ced nearly 169 million po-
Mr. Mueller and his wife | | is the first girl born in the
Barbara own and manage
community development ch-
airman, L. W. Stolz, Jr., of
La Grange, said that two
other communities, San
Marcos and Wharton, have
also expressed interest in
the program, but no dates
have yet been set for clinics
in those cities.
The beautification clinic
concept was developed to fill
a need expressed by area
communities to have access
to information concerning
techniques in setting up a
campaign and providing in-
centives for its implementa-
tion.
A region-wide contest to
select the most - improved
community has been planned
by the South Texas Chamber
with the winner to be deter-
mined at the organization’s
annual conference in Corpus
Christi next September.
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FIRST GIRL
IN 100 YRS. ;!
Mrs. L. W. Stolz of La .
The Fayette County Com-
missioners Court Friday ap-
proved the workman's com-
pensation insurance prog-
ram which the county will be
under in the future. The ac-
tion was taken at a special
meeting last week. The court
also accepted a contract with
the Hartford Group of the
Twin City Fire Insurance
Company.
In other action, the com-
missioners voted to instruct
the county auditor to prepare
amendments to the budget
and to include in those am-
endments the workman’s
compensation insurance and
automobile liability insur-
ance premiums as author-
ized by an act of the 61st
legislature.
Finally, the court discus-
sed the county school trustee
elections to be held on April
4 and authorized the polling
places in the school dist-
ricts. Polls will open at 8
A.M. and close at 7:00 P.M.
. of central Texas. The first
George family in 100 years. j । presentation was a play by
unds of grain using North-
rup King hybrlds--the equi-
valent of about 845 giant hop-
per carloads, or a train
nearly 13 miles long. To qu-
alify for the awards, each
Trainload Grower produced
more than a million pounds
from one or more NK hy-
brids and each carload Gro-
wer more than 200,000
pounds from a single NK hy-
brid.
The Texas Health Careers
Program will stage an as-
sembly program for La
Grange Junior High and High
School at 12:45 PM. on Feb-
ruary 27. A unique presenta-
tion, this assembly is desig-
ned to introduce students to
the exciting opportunities
which await the health-care
professional of tomorrow.
The need for health manpow-
er in Texas is, indeed, great.
Statistics indicate that 50,= .
- — -2 Health per son-
nel will be needed by 1975
to fill vacant paramedical
seats.
Speaker for the Health Ca-
reers Assembly will be Mr.
Spencer Guimarin, Director
of the Texas Health Careers
Program. A noted educator
and entertainer, Mr. Guima-
rin will speak on "You—
Health Careers--And The
Future,” the mighty mes-
sage of challenging, reward-
ing careers in health care.
The Texas Health Careers
Program is affiliated with
the Texas Hospital Associa-
tion.
Five persons are dead as
the result of two- separate
automobile accidents within
a seven-mile stretch of
Highway 290 in Fayette and
Lee Counties over the week-
end.
Two Lee County youths
were fatally injured Saturday
night when their car slam-
med into the rear of a trailer
truck five miles east of Gid-
dings on Hwy. 290.
Dead are the. driver, 23-
year-old Billy Lawrence of
Dime Box, and his girl com-
panion, 18-year-old Jane Ka-
ren Proske of Giddings. They
were the second and third
MRS. NEIDIG
PASSES AWAY
IN GALVESTON
Funeral services for Mrs.
Annie Mae Neidig, 46, of
Round Top were held Thurs-
day, February 12, at 2:00 P.
M. at the Round Top Luthe-
ran Church with Rev. Ronald
Haseley officiating. Burial
was in the Mayer Cemetery
near Winedale.
Mrs. Neidig, wife of Hugo
A. Neidig, passed away Feb-
ruary 10 in the John Sealey
Hospital in Galveston.
She was born on Septem-
ber 20, 1923, in Shelby, the
daughter of Ernest and Lil-
lie Von Minden Muske, and
was married to Mr. Neidig
on January 27, 1946, in Shel-
by.
Survivors include her hus-
band of Round Top; one son,
Dale "Neidig f Bergstrom
Air Force Base, Austin; one
daughter, Mrs. Fay Janes of
Brenham; her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Muske of
Carmine; and one grand-
child.
Clubs. Bill Laird of Los
Angeles, California, south-
western director for the or-
ganization, was in LaGrange
to assist with the organiza-
tion.
Local officers are James
Chessar, president; Jerry
Hess, vice - president; and
Darrell Koopmann, secreta-
ry. The club will meet the
second and fourth Mondays of
each month at LaGrange Mo-
tor Company, First event
is planned for the weekend
of March L
Anyone interested in join-
ing may contact one of the
officers or La Grange Motor
Co.
A gymkhaus, by the way,
is a sports car event which
sends drivers through a ser-
ies of marked gates, some-
what like the slalom event in
skiing.
Xa great-grandmother. Her
granddaughter and grand-Il
। son, Mr. and Mrs. Steven I I
। George of Houston, presen-1 I
I ted the family with an eight-1
I I pound baby girl. She was
I I named Jessica Louise and
un
Five Harlem
Star Members
Killed
A fifth victim has died at
injuries suffered as a car
and truck collided Thursday
near Greenville in North
Texas. He was 32-year-old
Thomas Bennett of Los An-
geles and he succumbed Th-
ursday night at Parkland
Hospital in Dallas. All the
dead were members ofapro-
fessional basketball team
known as the Harlem Stars.
State Patrolman Luther
Mitchell said the driver ap-
parently dosed and the car
smashed into the back of a
truck eight miles west of
Greenville.
Also killed in the crash
were 26-year-old Curtis
Williams of Los Angeles,
27-year-old Lyndall Cona-
way of San Antonio, 35-year-
old Gary Gray of Lubbock,
and 20-year-old Marvin
Reece of Texarkana. A sixth
member at the team, 23- year
old Pratt Lyons of Dallas,
was reported in critical con-
dition.
The Harlem Stars had just
completed benefits games in
La Grange and Giddings. Two
of those killed were among
the group that played against
the local Jaycees andomeof
them. Williams, better
known as "Snake Youne-
blond,’ was one of the Ma-
tured showmen.
Three Fayette Countians
were selected to take com-
petitive examinations for the
Air Force Academy, accord-
ing to release by US Senator
Ralph W. Yarborough.
The three young men are
Robert A. Schott and Scott
Smith, La Grange High Sc-
hool seniors, and William
Krenek, Schulenburg's Ble-
bop Forest High School sen-
ior. The three will com-
pete with 30 other selectees
from Texas for three ap-
pointments to the Air Force
Academy.
Robert A. Scott ia the son
of Taffy and the late Marine
Colonel E. E. Schott. Scott
Smith la the son of Valerie
and Jesse Smith, and William
Krenek is the son of Lawren-
ce and Thea Krenek.
To have three candidates
from this arse reflects greet
credit on this county’s school
system.
Pickle
Pushing
For PO
U.S. Rep. J. J. “Jake"
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