The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1959 Page: 1 of 20
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BILLY PLACKE
Named to All.State
Placke Named to Class AA All-State;
Goodson Receives Honorable Mention
Giddings Post Office
Sets Record Receipts
During the Year 1958
Maggie Bobo,. Postmaster of
the Giddings Post Office, dis-
of the Giddings Rotary Club,
has announced that the Annu-,
al Rotary Bridge Blockade for
the March of Dimes will be set
up Saturday by the members
peak
local
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have
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' live Bill Pieratt who will leave
for his first term in the State
Capitol next Monday
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WALTER KASPER
President
Citifen State Bank
MONROE HANNES
President
First National Bank
IKE GOODSON
Receives Honorable Mention
NOTICE
The P-TA meeting will
be an
of Angleton.
The honor, to * Placke and
Goodson becomes even more
in wrld war II and was de.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
Lee Countv's Leading Newspaper - First in News, Advertising- and Community Service - Since 1888
VOLUME 70 * GIDDINGS LEE COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 NUMBER 7
berth for- Hal Stanislau of es in our newspaper office that
Rockdale and Edgar Feldman, does not- bring us voluntary
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than ode-third of wages, lost
because of layoffs. ' ban. Kimberly and Cape Towni,
' Unemployment compensation
ties of South Africa, includingState Class AA Football Team
Johannesburg. Pretoria. Dur.'
closed that 1958 was a 1
year for receipts of the 1
post office $35,613.50 was
ceived here.
"Much of the increase
principal of that school as well
During the five years, Rev.
Sheffes held evangelistic met-
ings in many of the major i-
of God Church where specialwhile serving as a paratrooper
missionary’ services will ’ be --
significant when on finds that
the only other area selections
from among the Buffalo oppo-
nents were a second team
And we might add that if
you’ve got anything to sell just
let our Classified sell it for
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has been-named to the All-
and Donny Smith of Taylor,
Rev. R- E Sheffer will be over by the government.
you start out with this, the
first issue of the new year, and
corated and ited for bravery
in Italy and Belgium. He wasi
wounded twice and holds the
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf
Cluster.
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enjoyable reading
35, 30. 22c hannesburg, and supervised a
28c pubfie school which was later
15c turned over to the government
............... 45c educational department when
28c all mission schools were taken
School senior, who is describ-
ed by Coach Boone Jackson as
one of the finest, collegiate
prospects he has ever coached,
714.33 over the record
year when they- ended
$2,023,331.21 in deposits.
The First National
your rocker. You’re doing what
so many other intelligent read-
ers find themselves doing.
Many readers tell us they
read our Classified Pages re-
ligiously and find them most
interesting. In tests made- on
Classified, in cities of our size, .
the reader-interest runs as high
as 70%. Regular news features,
in most instances, actually run
less than that-. Not a day pass-
tress is correct. However, ac-
cordng to postal regulations,
only Postmaster is correct.)
which is an increase over the
banking year of 1957 of $394,-
450.96. The 1959 total amount-
ed to $2,807,442.90.
The First State Bank of Dime
Box reported deposits there
totaled $353,896.52 at the close
of Dec. 31, 1958.
on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13
at 7:30 p. m.
The program will be on
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Section of Paper
Have you ever found yourself
Ike Goodson, another Buffa-
lo standout this season, also
was given a first team berth
on the Fort Worth Sportwrit-
, er‘s team. Goodson was given
honorable mention by the Tex-
as Sportswriters.
ers received first team posi- tomed to reading-our Classified
tions: ’Besides Billy Placke, who pages we‘d like to suggest‘that
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statement shows deposits a-
All-State team are Stanley Ir-
win, Tommy Anderson and
Paul Lea of Terrell, Scott Ap-
Ctsetosed,
Socha, Lee County MOD Di- Committees are
msmzmeanaaaomaumaa novel . Statehouse
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your Giddings
think that’s
you’re not off
held Monday, Jan 12 at 7:30
p. m.
Rev Sheffer has . recently
I will be held Thursday at 7:30
p.mi. at the Parkway Cafe.
Guest speaker will be Dave
Shanks, popular after-dinner
speaker. who is State Editor of
the Austin American_States-
man.
- Tickets for the dinner are
I being distributed for donations
of $1 50. net proceeds to bet
I give n to the Giddings March of i
Dimes Fund-ampaign which
had its official Kick-Off last
' Saturday night at the Teen-
. Talent Show. '
■ , , . writers Association,
anct reports that he had hund-
; reds of decesions for Christ. I Billy, the son of Mr. and Mrs
in addition to .zthis, „Rev,.Fred Placke, last month was
, , Vv" . hredrwwih a first team po-
Shaffer served as overseer of .. . ... c . 1.
sition on- the All-State selec.
The Giddings Market ithe Assemblies of God Colored tions of the Fort Worth Star
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1959 and Indian Work in the Jo- Telegram.
and Leo Barta of Schulenburg. reports from classified custom-
who received honorable mery? ers about remarkable results
tion. " they have obtained.
Just four central Texas play IL,, you haven’t been accus_
dication of the prosperity
ahead, then Texans should
’ ejoy plenty of it during the
coming yearRecor deposits
have been reported at the close
. of 1958 by yanks throughout
the state.
Local banks have reported
time and demand deposits.
Condensed statements of the
local banks at the close of busi-
ness December 31, 1958 show
that the Citizens State Bank,
with deposits totaling $2,406,-"
. 045.54 had an increase of $382,-
morning it had fallen to 12
degrees.
The cold weather moved
Eastward, giving. the inhabi-
tants of Florida and other peo-
ple of the ‘Land of Sunshine’
the deep freeze treatment, with
12 degrees predicted at St,
Petersburg.
This cold spell will long be
remembered as the one that
caused snow to fall in Browns-
ville It was one of the coldest
we have had during the past
eight years.
On Feb. 2, 1951 the temper-
ature hit about nine degrees
above zero and was preceded
by a 17 degree' freeze on Jan.
30th, a low of 19 degrees on
Jan. 31 and 13 degrees on Feb.
1.
The 30.day forecast for Jan-
uary is’for below normal tem-
planning a pleton of Brady,
Send-Off
- . ly shifts with most of the
members of the club giving
generously and willingly of
OAKT!C BLAST HITS TEX- .
AS— One of the coldest frigid
blasts of artic air hit Texas ?
the past weekend, arriving im l
Giddings Saturday. At mid-
night the temperature was 20 ’
degrees and by 6 o’clock in the
vis of Stamford, Don Campbell V. M. McDougald, Commu-
nity Service Committee Chair-
I man, will be in charge of the ‘
! project. 4, •—- •
Kriegel said that in the
event of bad weather the pro-
ject will be postponed one
week?
STATEHOUSE SEND-OFF DINNER J
TO HONOR REPRESENTATIVE PIERATT
Emmett Hannes, Giddings rector; this week announced
MOD Chairman, and John J. that the local March Of Dimes
Eggs. per doz
Fryers, per lb
Hens, per lb
Cream
Pecans, per lb
suited from the increased rates
which went into effect Aug. 1
of 1958," Mrs. Bobo said.
The previous high year was
in 1954 when the receipts a-
mounted to $33,543.61.
Other amounts were: 1957,
$31,748.65: 1956. $32,049.50;
returned from the union of
South Africa, where he and
his family have spent five
years in missionary work. He
served as principal of the
South African Bible Institute,
for white, and established a
Bible School for the Colored
and Indians and served as
and 1955, $30,508.08'.
(Note: The correct title for
Maggie Bobo’s office is Post-
master. According to dictionary of He urged
usage. Postmaster or Postmis- everyone to take part in the
the speaker at the Assembly Rev. Shaffer was converted
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“digging around
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News? Don’t
I strange. No,
Rotary Members
To Operate MOD
'Toll Bridge'
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Leonard Kriegel, president
peratures with a lot of rain.
• JOBLESS RECEIVE 4 BIL-
MJ.oN IN 1958 — it is estimat -
cd that four billion dollars in
jobless benefits were paid to
eight million unemployed wor
kers in 1958. James Mitchell,
secretary of labor, in making
these figures pblic, said the
amount of benefits was double
any other year.
Average benefits per week
was $30 57, exceeding those
paid in 1957 by about $2 week-
ly Mitchell said that payments
replaced inst— a little more
Cje Giddings Siews
project by contributing dimes
and dollars to the local drive.
Members of the Rotary will
be scheduled for duty on hour-
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If bank deposits are any in- mounting to $3,201,893.86
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