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Fayette County’s Modern, Compact, Prize-Winning Photo Newspaper — In its 83rd Year of Service
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Official Newspaper of Fayette County and the City of La Grange — The Newspaper With a Purpose — Since 1880
Volume 83
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas Thursday, October 18, 1962
Number 42
Junior Garden Club
To be Organized Here
The Senior Garden Club of La
Grange is making plans to organize
a Junior Garden Club on Saturday,
Oct. 20, at 1:30 p.m. in the Ho-
tter Room of the La Grange State
Bank.
Mrs. Leola Tiedt will be the
sponsoring chairman and any boy
or girl between the ages of 10
and 16 who is interested is asked
to be present.
Mrs. F. J. Willmann, the pre-
sident of the La Grange Garden
Club, states that the purpose of
the Junior club is to give the
youth of La Grange and surrounding
area an opportunity to appreciate
the beauty around them, and the
knowledge to conserve that beauty. •
Also to instill in their hearts the
desire to grow things, and the
‘knowledge with which to do so.
- The club will meet once a month
to watch demonstrations on grow-
ing and arranging flowers, nattire
study, conservation, litter clean-
up campaign, etc.
The flower show held in spring
with the senior club will be the
highlight of the year’s work. The
juniors will have their separate
division and will not compete with
-senior members.
The junior club will also as-
sist the senior club with their
major project -- the museum.
United Church Women's
Toy Drive Now On
The United Church Women of La
Grange have announced that their
* annual drive to collect used toys
for needy children of Fayette
County to be distributed at Christ-
mastime is now on.
The ladies are asking for toys
which can be repaired and have
placed boxes at all of the local
churches and the fire station where
the toys can be taken.
Toys will be collected until Nov.
15 and the group asks the support
of the public so that each needy
child can receive a toy at Christ-
mas.
VFW Post Sets
Chilieburger Social
The VFW Post met Tuesday
night at the Post Home and plan-
ned a Chilieburger supper social
for Sunday, November 4.
The social will be for the fol-
lowing organization members and
their families: The VFW Post
and Auxiliary, Scout Troop 203,
the bowling team of the post, the
Babe Ruth Baseball team, the scout
master, assistant scout master
and committees.
Aubrey Voelkel is the chairman
of the social.
The Post also went on record
to have an entry in the American
Legion Parade on Nov. 12.
Garden Club to Meet
The La Grange Garden Club, Inc.
will meet on Oct. 25, at 2:30 p.m.
in the First National Motor Bank.
G. B. Mueller will be the speak-
er and subject will be on roses.
Hostesses are Mrs. Ed Matting-
ly, Mrs. Don Williams, Mrs. H. S.
Lang, and Mrs. Wm. Meyer.
Charlie Adamcik
Polka Band Here
Charlie Adamcik and His Polka
Tones of Dallas will furnish music
for an old-time and modern dance
at the Fair Pavilion here Saturday
night, Oct. 20.
The band leader is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Adamcik
of La Grange, and is one of six
Adamcik brothers who reside in
Dallas.
The band features the Adamcik
Sisters and their accordians, and
play favorites in waltzes and polk-
as, as well as modern music.
To Meet
The American Legion and Ladies
Auxiliary will have their regular
meeting in the American Legion
Hall Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:45
p.m. The Nov. 11th celebration
will be discussed.
Descendants of Four Dawson Men
Gather at Monument Hill Here
More than two hundred des-
cendants of four Dawson men ga-
thered at Monument Hill State
Park on Sunday to pay tribute
to these gallant heroes. Direct
descendants of the Cottle-Woods-
Harrell families were present at
this outing on the Bluff, their sec-
ond annual reunion -- the first
having been held last year on La-
bor Day.
• Among the honored members
present was Mrs. John Gray of
Waelder, the only living child of
Milvern Harrell who fought with
Dawson’s command in the mas-
sacre on Salado Creek near San
Antonio on Sept. 18, 1842. Mil-
vern was captured, taken to the
infamous Castle of Berate Pri-
son in Old Mexico, and was am-
ong the last group to be released
by Santa Anna in March, 1844.
Also present were two of the
elder descendants, Mrs. Sal Arm-
strong of Uvalde and Mrs. Del-
ma Harrell of Oklahoma City.
Eugene O. Insallof DeLeon, over
eighty years young, is the only liv-
ing grandson of Norman Woods, a
Dawson man who fougnt in the
Massacre, who was captured and
imprisoned in Pe rote Castle where
he died in December 1843. Mr.
Insall with a clear voice and a
gleam in his eye, told interesting
stories about these heroes which
he remembered as told to him by
his mother when he was a lad of
six years. He told the story of
grandfather Zadock Woods, oldest
member of Dawson’s Company, who
replied to Dawson’s question plac-
ed before his men as to whether
or not they should attack or re-
treat when encountered by over-
whelming odds, "Wehave march-
ed a long way to meet the Mexi-
cans, and I do not intend to return
without meeting them; I’d rather
die than retreat.” Mr. Insall told
about his uncle, Henry Gonzalvo
Woods, who, although badly
wounded, escaped the massacre by
seizing the shaft of the lance of
a Mexican dragoon coming at him
for the kill and using it to slay
the lancer, on whose horse he
rode away to make good his es-
(Continued on Back Page)
Leopards - Bellville In District
21 - AA Opener Here Friday Night
OUTSTANDING Catholic youth--
The La Grange CYO named Miss
Kay Zapalac, pictured above, as
"The Outstanding Catholic Youth”
in the Sacred Heart Parish. The
announcement was made Sunday at
the Brenham Distrct meeting.
Kay, a junior student at La Grange
High School, will now compete for
District honors.
Kay is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Zapalac of La Grange
and is president of the Sacred
Heart CYO. - - Journal staff photo.
Candidates for
Jury Duty Named
The November term Grand Jury
will be selected from this list of
veniremen. Judge J. Lee Dittert
has announced:
Leon Rosenberg, La Grange,
Walter Koehl, Ellinger, Edmond
F. Luck, West Point, Edwin F.
Kubena, Fayetteville, Shelton Wag-
ner, Schulenburg, Mrs. E.G. Mur-
phy, Round Top, Arthur Aschen-
beck, Rount Top, Rt. 1, Emil
Albers, Carmine, Monroe Jurk,
La Grange, Rt. 4, Victor Mach,
Schulenburg, Rt. 2, Wm. W. Cher-
ry, Muldoon, Rt. 1, Travis Feril,
Flatonia, Clifford Stafford, Schu-
lenburg, Leo Heller, La Grange
Rt. 3, Mrs. F.O. Brown, Schu-
lenburg, and Leo Frede, La
Grange.
Houstonite Attempts
Bus Holdup
Ted Allen Mundine, a Houston
man and passenger on a Greyhound
bus traveling between Columbus
and Weimar, tried to take over the
bus at gunpoint Monday night. One
passenger was shot and wounded in
the incident.
SerifPs officers at Columbus
said that Mundine will be charged
with assualt with intent to murder
and with robbery.
The bus driver, Charles Couser
ofSan Antonio told officers that
the gunman pulled a .22 caliber
pistol and ordered him to raise
his hands. Couser replied that he
could not take his hands off the
steering wheel and then the man
with the gun ordered a passenger,
Moises Rodrigues of Monterrey,
Mexico, to raise his hands. When
Rodriguez, who could neither speak
nor understand English, did not
comply. Mundine began shooting
and one bullet struck Rodriguez
in the chest-
Couser stopped the bus about
a quarter of a mile from a store
(Continued on Back Page)
The La Grange Leopards, un-
beaten in non-district play, will
face the highly-rated Bellville
Brahmas Friday night on Leopard
Field for their first action in Dist-
rict 21-AA play.
The Leopards sport five wins,
two of them shut-outs. In their
season opener they beat Halletts-
ville, 36-13 and followed in their
winning ways with a 33-0 decision
over Giddings. A 6-0 win was
Screw worms Reported
Less Numerous
More than 62 million sterile
screwworm flies were released
in Texas and New Mexico dur-
ing the week of Sept. 16-22, coun-
ty agent Clinton Bippert, has an-
nounced. ^Production of the flies
at the plant near Mission, has in-
creased stedily since it started
operation in June.
Livestock producers and sports-
men apparently are receiving the
program with widespread satis-
faction. Bippert said.
Walter Scahefer, County Screw-
worm chairman, who operates a
farm in the West Point vicinity,
expresses a typical reaction.
“I have found only a fraction
of the cases that I usually exper-
ience," Schaefer said.
Other producers in this county
and throughout the state have in-
dicated similar results, Bippert
reported. He said some pro-
ducers in Texas are having a lot
of trouble with screwworms, but
even in the most heavily infested
areas, producers admit that their
cases are less numerous than in
other years.
Rotary Club Pancake
Supper Set for Oct. 24
The La Grange Rotary Club will
have their annual Pancake Supper
on Wednesday evening, Oct. 24,
at 6 p.m. at the Hermes School
Cafeteria.
The meal will consist of pan-
cakes, bacon, milk or coffee and
everyone is invited to eat all they
want. Tickets will sell for $1.00
for adults and 50tf for children
under 12.
The Rotary Club has only one
benefit program each year. This
program is a community co-
operative venture in that the mer-
chants, their suppliers and others
usually donate the food and the
Rotarians donate the work in or-
der to put this benefit programon.
Money derived from this benefit
plus dues paid in by the members
is used for beneficial Community
Projects.
Tickets can be purchased at the
First National Bank and the La
Grange State Bank.
To Meet
The Veterans of World War One
and the Ladies Auxiliary will have
their regular meeting in the Am-
erican Legion Hall Sunday, Oct.
21 at 2 p.m. Readings from the
National Convention will be held
in Buffalo, New York and other
important business will be taken
care of.
recorded over the Taylor team
and The Leps were 20-6 victors
over the Cameron team. Last
week, La Grange came out on top
in a 7-6 ballgame with Caldwell.
Bellville also has five wins a-
gainst no losses in their non-dis-
trict record. The Brahmas had
an open date last week.
Coach Tom Bambrick will be
facing would could prove to be the
toughest competition in the district
in this first game.
The Leps, however, have been
turning in fine performances in
their non-district bouts and should
also prove to be a tough team tobeat.
Game lime on Leopard field is
8 p.m.
Farm Bureau Has
Annual Convention
The Fayette County Farm Bu-
reau held their annual convention
Monday night, Oct. 15, at the V.
F. W. Hall and hear C. W. Wede-
rneyer, research and promotion
director for theTexas farm Bu-
reau.
Wedemeyer told the members
tiiat what the Farm Bureau can do
will depend on the membership.
He said that Farm Bureau has
the strenth and power and the
rest is left to the individual mem-
ber. He urged members to study
and decide on issues of today.
"Find out what you are for —
than be for it!” he stressed.
He also told the member ship that
Farm Bureau is organized in 49
states and in "Porto Rico, with
202 counties being organized in
Texas. Legislative offices are
in Austin and Washington , D. C.
and a ;rade office in Rotterdam.
At the convention date, the Fay-
ette County Farm Bureau had 786
paid membership, the quota being
855. This leaves 69 members to
be obtained by Oct. 31.
It was noted that Ammannsville-
Dubiuc, Cistern, Holman, and
Round Top-Carmine locals had
reached their quota.
The Swiss Alp local which needs
29 new and renewals to reach their
quota of 173 chllenged the La
Grange local in a race to see
who could reach their quoto first.
The I a Grange local needs 23
to reach their quota which is
also 173.
Twelve resolutions were pre-
sented and accepted by the group.
Attendance prizes were won by
Edgar Anders, E. A. Lehmann,
James Ephraim. Joe Pampell, Elo
Witt. Martin Schulz, and W. A.
Ullrich.
Jaycees’ Ladies
Night Social Saturday
The La Grange Jaycees will
have a ladies’ night social at the
VFW Hall on Saturday night. Oct.
20 beginning at 7 p.m.
Baked turkey with the trimmings
will be served and the Jaycees’
ladies are being asked to bring a
covered dish.
Dancing to taped or recorded
music will follow.
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Roberts, Dottie M. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1962, newspaper, October 18, 1962; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112844/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.