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NUMBER 41
VETERAN OF KOREAN WAR LAID
TO REST IN HOMELAND TUESDAY
C C. Orts Sinclair Distributor
Honors Lavaca Sinclair Dealers
PFC. DANIEL C. BARCAK
Mystery Farm
Identified
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CAN YOU IDENTIFY YOUR FARM FROM A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW?
LUCKY FARMER PHOTO-QUIZ
DO YOU LIVE ON THIS FARM?
In Yorktown
Sub-Deacon; and Rev. Godfrey
the new Southwest-
Telephone Company
is on 6th Street be-
daughter, Mrs. Gene (Marga-
ret) Bures of El Campo; six
grandchildren; three brothers,
the Rev. Anthony Matula of
Ganado, Louis Matula of Hal-
lettsville and Frank J. Matula
of Dallas, and one sister, Mrs.
Rudolph Bordovsky of Hal-
farm, well improved,
general diversified far-
The Jungbauers have
new tractor and imple-
identifying
Robert Lee
Hybner, Si-
personnel over-
October 15 to
tribute to another
Tuesday morning,
when reverent and
funeral rites were
Funeral services were held
Friday at 9:45 AM, from Kube-
na Funeral Home, Hallettsville,
with Solemn Requiem Mass at
the Sacred Heart Church at 10
o’clock. Burial was in Halletts-
ville Catholic Cemetery.
Celebrant of the Mass was
her brother, Rev. Anthony Ma-
tula of Ganado. Other members
A great outpouring of people
followed the funeral cortege of
this Marine to its final rest in
his home land.
Daniel C. Barcak was born
March 27, 1928, at Shiner, the
son of Louis J. Barcak and An-
nie Matus Barcak. He spent all
of his life-time here with the
exception of the time in service.
He was married to Miss Mary
Velek, September 25, 1951, and
entered the Marine Corps on
October 10, 1951. His boot camp
training was received at San
The Sweet Home Catholic
Parish will hold their annual
fall picnic, Sunday, Oct. 12,
with all the usual attractions
and the usual big crowd is ex-
pected.
Dinner and supper will be
served as usual, and the Worth-
ing Band and Vanek’s Band
will furnish the music during
the day and for the big dance
at night. The public is invited
to attend.
was
Mr.
and
four
are
Fel-
An-
October 12, (Columbus Day),
at the 6:30 Mass.
The group will assemble at
the Gymnasium at 6:15 AM.
limit for such
pounds and the
The Yorktown Fire Company
will be hosts to the 33rd semi-
annual convention of the Gua-
dalupe Firemen’s Association
Sunday, October 12.
More than 600 delegates from
the 38 towns comprising the as-
sociation are expected to at-
tend, in addition to represen-
tatives from the State Fire In-
surance Department and the
State Firemen’s Training school.
C. C. Orts, Distributor of
Sinclair Products, of Moulton,
who serves Lavaca County
with Sinclair gas and oil, hon-
ored his many dealers with a
turkey barbecue with all the
trimmings at Sulphur Park,
last Thursday evening.
In the above picture
shown, left to right, A. E.
lows, Allen Dozier of San
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tonio, W. E. Gray, Houston,
Sinclair representatives and C.
C. Orts of Moulton.
The evening waas enjoyed by
about 60 guests present. The
barbecue turkey was delicious
and all agreed that Red knows
how to put on a good meal.
Besides the Sinclair repre-
sentatives, Weldon Knape, of
the Moulton Eagle and Lee
Sedlmeyer of the Gazette were
among the guests present.
After a most pleasant even-
ing of good eats and fellowship
all departed at a late hour
looking forward to the next an-
nual outing given by Red.
If you do and identify this aerial photograph by coming by The Shiner Gazette before Tues-
day after the paper is published on Thursday, you will receive an enlarged mounted airplane
view of this farm house free of charge from The Gazette after correctly identifying this farm.
( Photos will be presented to farm operators. The first person to correctly identify it will receive
two tickets to the Palace Theatre by calling at the Gazette Office. Cost of photos and engravings
paid for by JACKSON FARM MACHINERY CO., Yoakum and Hallettsville.
The citizens of Shiner bowed
again in
brave lad
October 7,
impressive
held at 8:30 o’clock from the
Roeder Funeral Home for Pfc.
Daniel C. Barcak, age 24 years,
4 months and 15 days at the
time of his supreme sacrifice in
Korea August 12, 1952.
The remains arrived under
the military escort of Master
Sgt. Paul B. Kroesen, U.S.M.C.
of Oakland, Calif., from Head-
quarters, San Francisco, Port of
Embarkation, Fort Mason, Cal-
ifornia.
An escort of veterans and the
family were in wating upon the
arrival of the 5:22 PM train
Sunday to receive the remains
and give an honor escort to the
Roeder Funeral Home where
the body rested in state until
the hour for services.
The Rev. John J. Hanacek
was officiant at the Requiem
High Mass at the Shiner Cath-
olic Church at 9 o’clock, with
the Rev. Thomas Collins as-
sisting at burial rites in the
Shiner Catholic Cemetery.
The Holy Rosary was recited
at the funeral home Sunday
and Monday at 8:00 PM.
All business houses closed
from 8 to 10:30 and the flags
flew at half staff until noon in
reverent respect for this brave
marine who gave his all for his
country.
The Rev. Hanacek spoke an
impressive tribute to the me-
mory of a fallen hero who gave
his best, his all, in sacrifice for
a better world for all mankind.
He spoke in both the Czech and
English language.
Meeting Notices
• Order of Eastern Star, Shi-
ner Chapter, will meet Tuesday
night, October 14, at 7:00 PM.
• KJZT Lodge, Blessed Virgin
Mary Society will meet Sunday,
Oct. 12, after the 8 AM Mass.
• Business Men’s Club will
meet tonight, Thursday, Oct. 9,
at 7:30 PM, at Post Cafe.
• VFW Auxiliary will meet
Thursday, October 9, at 7:30
PM, at the V. F. W. Home.
• The Shiner Garden Club
will meet at City Hall Thurs-
day, October 9, at 3 o’clock. All
members expected to be pres-
ent. Payment of dues is import-
ant business.
• THE SHINER High School
P.-T. A. will meet Thursday,
October 9, at 3:00 PM, in the
H. E. Cottage with observance ming.
of the Texas Congress Birthday
in form of a social. Mrs. Wm.
Wendtland will be guest speak-
er. All members are asked to
bring a non-membr, if possible.
Members and guests are invited
• BAND Mothers Club will
meet immediately following the
P.-T. A. meeting Thursday,
October 9.
Rites Held For
Vaclav Machart
Dial Telephone
Coming To Shiner
Sweet Home
Parish Picnic
Sunday, Oct 12
Funeral services were con-
ducted for Vaclav Machart Sr.,
aged 85 years and 3 days, Sat-
urday, October 4, at 9:15 AM,
from the Buffington Funeral
Home, Shiner, thence to Shiner '
Catholic Church for Requiem 1
High Mass at 9:30 with the Rev. '
Thomas Collins officiating.
Rosary was recited at the fu- :
neral home Thursday and Fri-
day at 7:30 PM. Burial was in
Shiner Catholic Cemetery.
Mr. Machart was born in Ne-
tolice, Czechoslovakia, Septem-
ber 28, 1867. He passed away
in the local hospital October 1,
1952 at 8:50 PM.
Mr. Machart came to America
in 1890. He was married to Ma-
rie Riha October 24, 1893, in
the Praha Catholic Church.
They settled first in Praha and
followed farming.
His wife preceded him to the
grave March 30, 1952. Other
deceased relatives were two
sons, Stanley and Martin; two
brothers, Frank and Anton
Machart; two sisters, Mrs. Ma-
rie Rab and Mrs. Anna Tesar;
also his parents, Anton and Ma-
rie Rudolf Machart.
Survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Jim (Ludmila)
Fikac, Mrs. John (Mary) Sie-
gel of Shiner; Mrs. Otto (Rosie)
Nemec, Corpus Christi; seven
sons, Vaclav, August Machart,
Shiner; John of Ganado; Frank
of Hallettsville; Raymond, Bo-
humil and Willie of El Campo;
54 grandchildren; 34 great-
grandchildren.
Mr. Machart leaves his fam-
ily a heritage of loyalty and de-
votion to the Catholic Church
of which he was a devout mem-
A dial telephone system in ber. He also held membership
Shiner was a step nearer today in the S.P.J.S.T. Lodge.
with the announcement by tele- Pallbearers were all grand-
phone company manager, W. A. sons, Jimmie, Melvin, Alvin,
Schorre, that bids are being Marvin, August and George
taken for a new dial telephone Machart.
building in this city. Schorre We extend sympathy to those
said that the bids are return- in sorrow over this aged
able in Dallas on October 14,
and it is expected the contracts
will be awarded by about Oct-
ober 24.
Site or
ern Bell
structure
tween Avenue D and Avenue E.
The new dial telephone build-
ing will be of frame construc-
tion with asbestos siding. It will
house the dial switching equip-
ment which is now on order at
telephone factories, Schorre
said.
Christmas packages sent to
armed services
seas are from
November 15.
The weight
packages is 70
size limit is 100 inches length
and girth combined. One group
of APO addresses, on file at the
post office, has a weight limit
of 50 pounds while the airmail
package weight limit is 2 lbs.,
with a 30 inch limit for com-
bined length and girth meas-
urement.
Overseas airmail packages
are mailable for Christmas
delivery until November 25, al-
though early mailing of all
packages was stressed as an
important factor for certain
delivery before December 25.
Senders of gifts were advised
not to mail foods because of
the risk of spoilage and the
plentiful supplies available to
overseas staff members. Pack-
ages destined for service men
and women at more distant ad-
dresses including Japan, Korea
and the Pacific Island bases
should be mailed especially
early, the postmaster said.
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Coral Snake
Killed On Farm
Raymond Brosh of Rt. 1,
Shiner, brought in a snake last
week Tuesday which was iden-
tified as the deadly Coral snake.
Mrs. Brosh discovered the
snake about 6 o’clock Monday
evening as she was doing the
evening chores. She called to
her husband, who promptly
killed the snake, which measur-
ed about three feet in length.
This was the third such snake
killed on the farm in recent
months.
VOLUME 60 8c PER COPY SHINER, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1952
Last weeks aerial photo
identified as the farm of
and Mrs. Tom Jungbauer
family on Route 1, Shiner,
miles east of Shiner. The Jung-
bauer family jointly purchased
the farm about two years ago
from Mrs. Ad. Schulze. Before
purchasing this farm the family
lived on the Green Estate.
Mr. and Mrs. Jungbauer
came from Czechoslovakia. Mrs.
Jungbauer was 77 years of age
on August 28, while Mr. Jung-
bauer will be 82 on November
1. Due to their age the children, recommended mailing dates for
Frank, Tom Jr., Bill, Emil, Ed-
die and Rosie, care for the 182-
acre farm, 140 acres of which
are in cultivation. The family
are members of the Shiner
Catholic Church and Mrs.
Jungbauer and Rosie are mem-
bers of the KJZT Society.
The
covers
Cemetery Ass’n.
Food Sale Oct 18
Saturday, October 18, at 3:00
PM, is the day for the food sale
which will take place at the
City Hall.
Many goodies, such as dress-
ed chickens, home-made nood-
les, cakes, bread, rolls, kola-
ches and pies, eggs and various
other kinds of good foods will
be on sale.
All proceeds will go to the
Shiner Cemetery Association
and everyone who has loved
ones resting in this city for the
dead is asked to contribute
some item for the food sale.
This is your official notice.
There will be no other remind-
er sent to anyone. Make plans
now to attend the big food sale
and bring your contribution,
such as items listed above.
Don’t forget the date, Satur-
day, Oct 18, at 3:00 PM.
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Tax Collector
Here Oct 15-16
The Assessor-Collector
taxes for the year 1952, John
L. Smolik, will be in Shiner
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct.
15 and 16; for the purpose of
collecting state and county tax-
es.
Diego, California, and he fin-
ished training at Camp Pendle-
ton, Calif. He left for overseas
service in the Korean Area on
April 14, 1952, and was as-
signed to B Co., 1st Platoon, 1st
Bn., 1st Marines, 1st Marine
Division. He was at home on
leave before going overseas.
Survivors include his grief
stricken parents and wife, two
brothers, Edwin and Bennie of
Shiner and three sisters, Mrs.
John (Annie) Raz and Mrs.
Jim (Louise) Raz of Yoakum;
Mrs. M. S. (Adel) Burton of
Corpus Christi.
Those participating in the
full military honors were from
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and American Legion Posts and
included color bearers, Eddie
Jaks and Louis Dusek; color
guards, Steve D. Kubicek and
Alfred Ripper; firing squad: Ad.
Koncaba, Alvin Boehm, Edgar
Kram, Frank Streng, Monroe
Menke, Morgan Sonntag and
Joe Surovec; bugler: Bennie
Simper; chaplain: Curt Messer;
and squad leader, Rudy Filip.
Attending the flag draped
casket were Ad Seidenberger,
Roy Hewig, Gilbert Kasper,
Jimmy Cimrhanzel, Robert H.
Sterling and Norbert R. Tasler.
The flag was reverently fold-
ed by M./Sgt. Kroesen, assisted
by chaplain Curt Messer, who
presented it to the grief strick-
en widow.
Pfc. Daniel C. Barcak was a
young man of strong character
and high ideals and command-
ed the respect and esteem of all ^
who knew him. We bow in rev-
erence to this lad who gave his
life to preserve the American
way of life and we also join
with all in this community in
extending sympathy to the be-
reaved.
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October 15 To
November 15 For
Overseas Pkgs.
Postmaster Ed Herder has
called attention to the fact that
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Farm Bureau
Social Thursday
Members and their families
are invited to the Farm Bureau
meeting Thursday, Oct. 9, at Communion in a body Sunday,
Legion Park, beginning at 7:45
PM. A social hour will be ob-
served and all are asked to be
present.
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Heart Attack
Claims Life Of
Mrs. G. Franta
A distinct shock was
news of the death of Mrs. Gus-
sie Matula Franta, 55, which
occurred in the Nightingale
Hospital, El Campo, at 3:30
AM Thursday, Oct. 2. She be-
came suddenly ill at 2:30 the
same morning from a heart at-
tack.
Mrs. Franta was well and
favorably known throughout
this vicinity where she was as-
sociated with the State Welfare
Department for ten years.
She was in charge of the
work in Wharton until about
two years ago, when she decid-
ed to make her home in Hal-
lettsville.
She returned to the Wharton
office about two months ago
where she was a field worker
and resided in El Campo. She
held a Bachelor of Arts degree
and a Master’s degree and was
one of the most efficient em-
ployees in the area as well as
splendid school teacher. She
was apparently in good health
when she closed her Wharton
office Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Franta had been in at-
tendance at Czech Day celebra- lettsville.
tion in Hallettsville Sunday and
participated in a very capable
and prominent manner. She
was known throughout the
state, being a prominent mem-
ber and director of the KJZT
Lodge.
Born at Wallis, Texas, Aug-
ust 28, 1897, she had spent
many years of her life at Hal-
lettsville. Her husband, the late of the clergy assisting at the
Joseph Franta, died suddenly a Mass were Very Rev. Joseph
number of years ago while driv- Pustka of Yoakum, Deacon;
ing his car from Yoakum to Very Rev. Alois J. Morkovsky,
Hallettsville.
She was the daughter of the Kuratko, Master of Ceremonies,
late Louis and Emily Matula. Very Rev. Morkovsky preached
She is survived by two sons, the Czech sermon and the Eng-
Joseph Robert Franta of Hal- lish sermon was given by Very
lettsville and Louis James Rev. Pustka, both paying her a
Franta of El Campo; one deserving tribute.
built a
ment shop, chicken houses, and
a new barn to house livestock.
The crops are cotton, corn and
feedstuffs. They graze 29 head
of livestock, have 33 hogs, a
large flock of laying hens and
some 40-odd turkeys.
The family enjoys every fea-
ture in the Shiner Gazette and
have been continuous subscrib-
ers for 54 years.
Those correctly
the farm were:
Meyer, Mrs. Felix
donia Koudelka, Jerry Kurtz,
Mrs. Daniel Veit and Selma
Rebecek. The two free show
passes to Palace Theatre were
awarded to Mrs. Felix Hybner.
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Firemen To Meet
K.C. Communion
Sunday, Oct. 12
The Knights of Columbus,
Monsignor Netardus Council
No. 3081, will receive Holy
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Lane, Ella E. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1952, newspaper, October 9, 1952; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1175857/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.