The Fayette County Record (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 15, 1952 Page: 1 of 6
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Subscription Pries
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THE FAYETTE COUNTY RECORD
Nearly 3700 Paid Up
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Newspaper by
Community Research
Bureau
Published Twice Weekly By The Farmers Publishing1 Company, La Grange, Texas
Devoted to the Interests of the People of Fayette County and of Texas
volume xxx
LA GRANGE, TEXAS,
TUESDAY, jyLY 15, 1952
NUMBER 74
NEW WELL NOW
FLOWING INTO
CITY’S MAINS
Shortage Appears
Licked; Other
Work Progresses
La Grange residents, who at
this date last Summer were
“crying the blues’’ because of
a critical water shortage here,
Friday afternoon found them-
selves in the most optimistic
situation—as far as water was
concerned—that this ancient
city has ever enjoyed.
Reason was that the city’s
new well, located in western
La Grange just north of High-
way 71, which is capable of
producing 600 gallons of water
per minute but which is cur-
rently being restricted to 200
because of the type pump be-
ing employed, was placed in
operation for the first time
Friday.
City Utilities Chief L. G.
Tilton, as a result, was wear-
ing his broadest smile since he
“hit town" back in the 40’s.
“Just think,” he housed, “no
more telephone calls, no more
(See WATER, Page 2)
STAR FARMER
TO BE HONORED
1953 Ag Program
Told At Houston
Plans of procedure for the
1953 agricultural conservation
program were outlined in
Houston Friday at a district
meeting which attracted ad-
ministrators and aides from 22
counties in Texas, It is report-
ed by Kenny L. Stork, PM A
executive here, who attended
the session along with two
other leading agriculturists
here.
The duo included Yates
Smith, local Soil Conservation
Service technician, and John-
ny Krause, chairman of the
PMA committee.
Principal objective, Mr.
Stork reported, was to explain
the changes in procedure
which will be followed in 1953
in the administration of the
ACP program. In contrast to
last year when the program
got underway in September,
indications are that it can not
start prior to January 1 now,
Mr. Stork said.
He called attention to a pea-
nut marketing meeting which
would be held later this
month, exact details of which
will be announced prior to the
session.
IJSDA Boll Worm
Supervisor Returns
T. R. Adkins, control super
visor for the USDA Bureau of
Entomology and Plant Quar-
antine, who was in charge of
the pink boll worm control
program in Fayette county
fast year, has returned to La
Grange to carry on similar
work this season.
Mr. Adkins and his wife left
here last fall for Ft. Meyers,
Florida, where Mr. Adkins
was engaged in eradiction
work in voluntary cotton.
They are again located in the
Sulak apartments.
At this time Mr. Adkins will
concentrate his attention on
gins to see that they are pro-
perly equipped and operate as
required to prevent spread of
the pink boll worm. Later in
the season he will concentrate
on the plow-up and stalk de-
struction phase of the pro-
gram. %
BABY BOY ARRIVES
Mr. and Mrs. George (Pat)
Cox are the proud parents of
a baby boy born on Saturday,
July 5, at the Youens hospital
in Weimar. The baby weighed
nine pounds, two ounces and
was given the name of Wilbur
Hugh. This makes two boys
and two girls for the Cox fam
Uy. ...
DEMONS LOSE TWO CLOSE ONES
! FAYETTE BOY
SEEKS FFA POST
Luling 9, La Grange 6
Seguin 3, La Grange 2
Luting’s Oilers here Thurs-; A bingle from the hat of
day night defeated the La Randy Biesenbach, White SoX |
Grange Demons 9 to 6 in a catcher, in the 9th canto, scor-
Guadalupe Valley fracas ing Shortstop Red Miller,
which skidded the local aver- gave Seguin a 3 to 2 Guada-
age to .428 in the circuit with1 lupe Valley victory over the
6 wins, 8 losses. | La Grange Demons at Seguin
Six miscues aided the Oiler Sunday afternoon,
cause, however, they managed i The loss skidded the De-
also to nip Louis Little, losing mons to .400 in the circuit,
hurler, for 10 bingles. Spear- having won 6, lost 9.
heading the attack for the win-1 Until the 9th, it was nip-and-
ners was Leftfielder Honey tuck, with Demon Hurler Ben-
Davis, who lived up to his nie Heinrich and Sox Slinger
name by batting in 5 runs with Harry Nagel trading tricks on
two singles. Red Bounds, the mound effectively
veteran third sacker, account-1 Gene Herzik, rightfielder,
ed for another Luling tally | singled to right in the 4tft to
Leslie Oppermann of La with a single while Joe Rags- score his Demon mate Charlie
Grange will be among 10 Star dale, rightfielder, and Ross Otto and in the next inning,
Farmers to be honored at a McMahan, catcher, each dou- Charlie Otto, first sacker,
bled. I tripled to center to tally
For La Grange, First Sack- Manager Frank Kana, who
ManKilled As Car Overturns
Lone Star Farmer banquet to
be held July 17 in Dallas, dur-
ing the state Future Farmer
convention.
Leslie, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Erwin Oppermann of La
Grange, has had three years of
vocational agriculture and
lives on a 97 acre farm. The
net worth of his farm animals,
crops, building, land and
equipment is $1,709.26. His
1951-52 projects have included
a beef calf; 8 pigs; 132 hens;
1 sow; 3 gilts; 3 dairy heifers;
3 head of range cattle; 75
broilers; and 3 acres each of
com and cotton. Other activi-
ties of Leslie’s are church and
Red Cross work and athletics,
including playing tennis and
basketball.
Oran Little of Schulenburg
is one of 10 nominees for State
Future Farmer president, who
will be elected July 18 in Dal-
.las, during the three-day an
er Charlie Otto had a fine had singled past second. The nua] state Future Farmer con-
night, hammering out a pair of Demons led 2-1 going into the
doubles to bat in two tallies; j 8th.
Pitcher Louis Little had a per- j Seguin tied the fracas at 2-2
feet night at bat with two sin-; in the 8th chapter when Or-
gies- and Leftfielder, John j lando Schraub, leftfielder,
Schultz batted in a Demon, tripled to center to
run with a 7th chapter single. Chuck Ehrhardt, rightfielder.
Lone triple of the fray was by j (See SEGUIN, Page 5)
Shortstop Frank Kana in the1------
7t^ . , . Emil Schott, 92,
One unusual aspect of the
fracas was a three-error play
by the Demons in attempting
to handle an attempted hit by
Second Sacker George Carlis-
le LULING, Page 2)
Former Fayette
Resident Writes
Of 40-50 Lb. Beets
Mrs. George Bollom of Dris-
New Garbage Pick-up
Scheduled For City
Given By Hruska
The new schedule of gar-
bage pick-up days, both in the sident
residential and business sec
tions of La Grange, were an.
Taken By Death
Emil Schott, a retired farm-
er of near La Grange, died at
his home Sunday at the age of
92.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at the
Koenig Funeral Home with
interment in the new city
cemetery, the Rev. H. T.
Flachmeier officiating.
Mr. Schott was a lifelong re-
of Fayette county. He
vention. Other nominees are
Donnie Stroup, Canyon; Joe
N. Stephens, Lamesa; Norman
Evans, Graham; Donald
Stodghill, Rockwall; Joe Dan
®f°re j Boyd, Winnsboro; Ralph Bach-
mayer, Taylor; Garland Car-
roll, Cleburne; Benny Hamil-
ton, Nacogdoches; and Clyde
Fischer, Victoria. Nine of the
candidates will serve as state
vice presidents under the new
president. Franklin Brandt of
La Grange is retiring presi-
dent.
Fayette Man Has
Important Role
In Giant Project
A former Fayette county
man, M. C. Herzik, has an im-
:-lwas bom on Anril 99 ' taut) . P°rtant role »n the gigantic job
Y iw • ’ q ’ i converting bloody Okinawa
•“ison of Adam and Marie Russ Gibraltar of the
coll, a Fayetteville native, nounced today by W. C. Hrus- Schott, both natives of Ger-
many. As a young man he
In the residential section,1 married Miss Lena Stoicher
north of the Katy railroad (wh0 preceded him in death on
track, pickup day will be!October 20, 1941.
Thursday; south of the track, Surviving are two daughters,
Tuesday. Residents are asked I Mrs. Olga Maynard and Mrs.
to have their garbage
ready by 7 a. m.
doesn’t produce any evidence, j ka, city engineer,
but she does write to minimize
the size of the 20 1/4 lb. stock
beet recently brought in by
Joe J. Orsak of near Ellinger.
After reading an account of
the big beet in The Record.
Mrs. Bollom wrote;
“A few years ago, when I
was still at home on our farm
into “the
Pacific.”
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus
Herzik of La Grange, M. C.
was recently promoted to the
post of chief of the planning
branch of U. S. engineers as-
cans i Max Rosenberg of La Grange; 5???ed t0 ■ multt-milUon
L son, Robert M. Schot, of U doUar Pr°Ject- Hls •>•«*
A three-day-a-day plan will Grange; a sister, Mrs. Louise
be placed in operation for.Tiemann of La Grange; seven
in Fayetteville, my mother cafes, groceries, the hospital,' grandchildren and 13 great-
used to plant stock beets every egf?-plants, hotels and the grandchildren,
year, and it took a lot of work locker plant. This group will
to di^ one out of the ground, given service on Monday,
for one beet weighed from
pounds up to 50 pounds.
Wednesday and Friday. Own-
asked to have their
“Sorry to say, at that time 8al^®8e ready by 7 a. m.
we never even thought of tak-
ing a picture of one of ’em; we
figured everyone knew they
grow that big.
“And now I’d like to know
if there is someone who grew
'em that big or bigger?”
Replies are invited
ses-
Firemen Set Date
For Family Feed
La Grange firemen, in
sion Thursday night, set Sun-
day night, Aug. 3 as the date j former total of between 30 and
for their annual treat for their 50
wives and families.
All other business houses
will receive two-day-a-week
service: on Mondays and Fri-
days and are also asked to
have it ready by 7 a. m.
As the result of a recent
amendment to ordinances by
the city council, residential
pick-up rates were raised to
60c; three-day-a-week service
to $2; and two-day-a-week ser-
vice, $1.50.
Mr. Hruska reported that
La Grange’s service had in-
creased to about 200 big loads
a month as compared with a
The event will be staged,
beginning at 6 p. m., at the
fair grounds. The entertain-
ment committee was given the
green light to make all neces-
sary preparations. If past
similar events are any prece-
dent, a grand time will be had
by all.
He urged that residents re-
frain from placing dead fowls
and small dead animals in the
city garbage area, in violation
of the state law. It is all right
to bury them, however. He
further reminded that it is un-
lawful to dump garbage along
a highway or in ditches along
a road.
LOBPRIES HEADS BOWLERS;
SEASON’S TROPHIES AWARDED
Fritz Lobpries, county super-
intendent of schools who is
somewhat of a sports enthusi-
ist also, Wednesday night was
■lected as the new president
jf the La Grange Bowling As-
sociation, succeeding R. B.
Kelly.
Other officers elected were:
Vallie Schlottmann, first vice-
president; Fred Speaks, sec-
ond vice-president; and Mau-
rice Levin, secretary-treasur-
er.
The officers will be installed
it a social affair to be held
i,tiers July 30 at I p. m. at the
American Legion Hall, Secre-
tary Levin reported.
Annual awarding of troph-
ies, at the conclusion of the
tournament, was also made at
the Wednesday night parley.
Royal Crown Bottling Co.
placed first in the men’s divi-
sion and the New York Store
was runrter-up. Both teams
were given trophies and mem-
bers of the Royal Crown
championship group were a-
warded individual trophies.
Individual trophy winners
were Maurice Levin, John Ro-
(Sea BOWLING, Page 2)
Weigher Maas
Asks Re-election
The Record is authorized to
announce Fritz C. Maas as can-
didate for re-election as public
weigher of Precinct No. 1, La
Grange, subject to the action
of the Democratic Primary
election on July 26.
Mr. Maas desires to thank
the voters for their past sup-
port and respectfully solicits
their votes and support in this
year’s elections. He promises
to continue to render the same
type of efficient service that he
has rendered in the past, if
again elected.
His candidacy is respectfully
submitted for the readers’ con-
sideration.
two sons are living
island with him.
A United Press story by
Earnest Hoberecht, dated
March 31, is reproduced below
to show the enormity of the
task on which Mr. Herzik is
assigned:
Tuesday is the seventh anni-
versary of the Allied landing
on Okinawa in 1945 and the
beginning of the last and
bloodiest battle of the Pacific
war. *
I walked Monday in reve-
rent silence along the debris-
littered invasion beaches and
climbed the scarred, blood-
soaked hills where more than
12,000 Americans and 110,000
Japanese died.
There were no kamikaze
planes like those that came
raining down on the giant fleet
which steamed up to Okina-
wa’s beaches with the invasion
forces on the Easter Sunday
of years ago. There were no
(See HERZIK, Page 2)
\gent Reese Reports:
Topping Waste Of Time
By Co. Agt. Jim Reese
About this time of year I
am always asked the question
whether or not com should be
topped. In most cases the peo-
ple are undecided or looking
for a good argument. My opin-
ion Is that most farmers who
top their com are working for
nothing.
I base this statement on two
things. In the first place corn
tops have practically no food
value, being on about the
same level as cotton seed hulls,
and the second reason is that
there is a terrific amount of
hand labor involved in gath-
ering and storing the tops.
Here are some results con-
ducted by the Texas Agricul-
tural Experiment Station over
a period of six years at the
substation at Beeville. Corn
which was allowed to mature
without topping produced an
average of 21.7 bushels an
acre. Com topped 14 days af-
ter silking yielded 17.3 bushels,
a loss of 20.3 percent. Where
corn was topped 26 days after
silking, the yield was 17.6 bu-
shels and the loss 18.9 per-
cent; 38 days after silking,
19.9 bushels and a loss of 8.3
prt'cent.
When leaves were stripped
26 days after silking, the yield
was 15.3 bushels and the loss
was 29.5 percent.
The test proved that farm-
ers are usually wasting their
time in topping com, because
what they gain in fodder, they
lose in grain.
It is, of course, possible that
in case of a feed shortage,
farmers might be able to keep
from buyng feed by topping
com to carry animals until the
grain is ready, but even then
it is doubtful if the practice
pay*.
POWER TO GO OFF
MONDAY NIGHT
Austin Defeats
Locals Second Time.
Enters Bi-I)istrict
Austin’s American Legion
“Buddies” Saturday afternoon
overcame a 3-0 deficit and
handed La Grange’s young
Legionnaires their second
loss, 9-4, at House Park in
Austin.
Austin thereby earned the
right to advance into the bi-
district playoff of the Legion’s
competition and will meet, u n . >. n,
Lampasas this week. I **• ‘ LoUncil I .Hns
La Grange went ahead in Complete Report
the first inning to drive Louis i r
Bradshaw, Austin tosser, from On Year’s Activity
the box. The locals tallied I
La Grunge will be with-
out lights and power from
midnight Monday until 4
a. m. Tuesday, Utilities
Manager L. G. Tilton ad-
vises.
This interruption in ser-
vice will be caused by
replacement of transform-
ers at the LCRA sub-sta-
tion north of the city.
One was killed, one critical-
ly injured, and three automo-
biles badly damaged in week-
end traffic accidents in Fay-
ette county, elevating the
county’s total traffic fatalities
to four for 1952.
August Vyvjala, 26-year-old
Flatonia resident, was killed
almost instantly and his com-
panion, 23-year-old Ardin
Knesek of Praha, critically in-
jured, when the 1950 Chevro-
let in which they rode went
out of control at 1:25 a. m.
Sunday morning, sped along
, the State Highway 95 ditch,
three times on singles by At the regular monthly (then overturned a number of
Charles Weinert, Robert Bog-j meeting of the Fayette County times, one mile south of Fla-
gan and David Eilers, coupled: H. D. Council held in the Dis- tonia.
with an error by Doyle Gree-|trict court room here recently,! Both of the young men, who
son who attempted to handle semi-annual reports were were returning from Shiner,
turned in to Mrs. Arthur were rushed to the aspital at
Hoffman, educational chair-; Shiner. Mr. Vyvjala was dead
Another Critically
Hurt In Mishap
Near Flatonia
grounder by Dan
a hard
Fritsch.
Austin bounced back in the
same chapter for two runs.
Catcher Symank walked, stole
man by the club presidents. I upon'arrival. Mr'. Knesek, ex-
These reports will be com-1animation disclosed, suffered
_________,_____ piled by the educational com-.nine broken ribs, and severe
second, and came home on j mhtee and will then be pre- injuries to the head, knee, and
Freddy Wendlandt’s long sen*ec* to the commissioners’, collar bone, the latter being
court so that members of the fractured. He had a very high
triple. Third baseman Joe
Gueda singled to score Wend-
landt.
Austin tied the fray at 3-3
in the third when Symank,
after a single, went to second
on a passed ball, took third on
Wandlandt’s pop fly, and
scored when Guedea was safe
on an error.
The winners chased across
court might see the progress
of home demonstration work
in the county.
The two newly-organized
clubs of Muldoon and Hostyn
were added to the roll. This
makes a total of 19 clubs.
A picture of Mrs. V. G. Fren-
zel and a letter concerning her
____________work as a home demonstration
three more in the fifth when j woman will be sent to
nine men came to bat. Wal- I 22^counties in District 10. _ ___ _____......J
lops were singles by Symank,! Mrs. Frenzel is a candidate;, turned no less than five times
Second Sacker Carroll Lundin , *or vice-president of this dis- and that, on its first flip trevel-
ai^l Wendlandt. Successive ] a\ t'le ek'ction which will ed at least 15 yards in the air
temperature Monday morning,
the hospital reported.
Both of the young men were
thrown from the vehicle, ac-
cording to Deputy August
Brunner of Flatonia, original
investigator. Later investiga-
tion was made by State High-
way Patrolman James Spencer
and Fayette Sheriff T. J.
Flournoy. Patrolman Spencer
pointed out that the car over-
walks to Bradshaw, Greeson ta^e at t^le stat<1 meet-
and Pinckney forced in Wend-
landt with the final run of the
inning.
Another tally came home in
the seventh on one hit and two
errors and the final pair scored
in the eighth on Wendlandt’s
two-bagger with Symank and
Lundin on base.
Austin’s Buddies executed
two double plays and La
Grange one, the locals’ coming
in the sixth, Boggan to Jackie
Schwake.
David Eilers was the losing
pitcher, giving up 9 hits, fan-
ning 6, walking 5. Terry Whit-
worth, for Austin, allowed 2
hits, fanned 4, walked 2. Brad-
shaw allowed 4 runs off 5 hits
in 1 and 1/3 innings.
La Grange's only extra base
hit was a double by Charles
Bathe in the seventh.
August
ing at Kingsville on
26-28.
Several ladies reported on
their uses of the bite-o-milk
candy that was demonstrated
to the council in April by Vir-
ginia Rose and Anna Faye
Keilers. A dairy foods medal
was presented to each of these j lision with a 1941
prior to landing on the ground.
Two cars were damaged and
scrambled eggs were available
at 2 p. m. Saturday a mile west
of La Grange on Highway 71
when a 1930 Model A Ford,
full of eggs, and driven by
farmer Harry Oltmann, 58, of
La Grange area, was in col-
■ ~ Plymouth
Petzold Shifts
Garage Service
The Petzold Garage, which
has been in operation here for
the past 37 months and which
has been located adjacent to
Highway 71 in eastern La
Grange, has closed its business,
it is announced by Erwin A.
Petzold, owner.
Alvin Freudenberg has
served as foreman of the gar-
age which opened for business
here in May, 1949.
Mr. Petzold said that he
would attempt to offer the
same type of service from the
Petzold Service Station, which
is located at the intersection
of Jefferson and Travis streets
here.
He invites the continued
patronage of his past custom-
ers. i • * •
BREAKS LEG IN FALL
August Arldi, 76-year-old
La Grange resident, suffered
a fracture of his left leg above
the knee in a fall in the yard
of his home Wednesday morn-
ing. He is currently in Fayette
Memorial hospital.
IN AIR CORPS
Albert Pechal, son of Mrs.
Martin Pechal, who volunteer-
ed for the army air corps, left
Monday for Lackland Air
Force Base, San Antonio, to
begin his basic training
two girls as an award for their | sedan operated by Edwin Cer-
achievements as a dairy foods nosek, 20, of Route 3, La
*eam I Grange. Deputy Sheriff Ar-
Mrs. Vada J. Luckenbach nold Knippel made the inves-
reported that plans will be; tigation.
made to have a training j ■ ■ -
school on Christmas deeora-
(See COUNCIL, Page 2)
Final Rites Held
For Albers Baby
Funeral services were held
at the Koenig Funeral Home
here Sunday morning for little
Patricia Marie Albers, 10-
month-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Morris E. Albers of
John J. Kolodejcak
Dies At O’Quinn
John J. Kolodejcak, 76,
passed away Sunday afternoon
while taking a nap at the
home of his son, J. F. Kolodej-
cak in the O’Quinn communi-
ty
He was found dead when
his son went to wake him from
his customary afternoon nap
to eat lunch. Justice of the
Yorktown, who died Saturday . peace Harvey Clark of Schu-
a or own. | jenburg held an inquest and
The services were conducted j ruled the elderly man had died
by the Rev. S. A. Zientek and! from natural causes. Deputy
interment was in the new city i Arnold Knippel aided in the
cemetery. j investigation.
Besides the parents, both | The body was taken to
former La Grange residents, | Cameron for burial. Funeral
survivors include a brother,
Morris E. II, age 3; the mater-
arrangements, however, were
not available Monday mom-
nal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ing.
Arthur Von Minden; and the j Mr. Kolodejcak had made
paternal grandfather, O. W. his home with his son for the
Albers. |past two and a half years.
TOPPING OF FRANKLIN STREET
SCHEDULED TO START SOON
Work of preparing Franklin
Street, from Liveoak to Milam,
a distance of four and a half
blocks, for paving by the
State Highway Department, is
nearing completion here un-
der direction of W. C. Hruska,
city engineer.
Mr Hruska said that he ex-
pected to have the project
completed by July 19.
The state, making way for
improvements on Highway 77,
and converting Franklin street
into a temporary detour dur-
ing the time required for the
highway improvements, will
I pave Franklin 20 feat wide
ap-
he
down the center. Owners maj
make it “curb to curb” for t
very reasonable fee, Mr. Hrus
ka said. Additional footage to-
ward the curb would be
proximately nine feet,
pointed out.
To be improved, lowered
leveled, and, as far as motorinj
space is concerned, widened
will be Highway 77 from th<
Colorado river bridge in south
em La Grange to the inter
section of Highways 71 and T.
in downtown La Grange
Work will begin in the immed
iate future.
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