New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1951 Page: 1 of 8
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An Editorial
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units in 1950.
to page 4, please)
must vote for all
FIREMEN CANCEL
REGULAR MEETING
it the U. S. Army's
I Hospital near Yo-
county, therefore, the men called
by the Board for Induction are
subject to call as they are avail-
ably and as a class or age-group.
Sleet Storm
Reported In Sqi
Texas By L. K
ould one care to
nd issue for this
Mrs. Rudolph Melnar..of Hal-
lettsville Rt 3, died at Moulton
Tuesday, January 30, at the age
of 71 years, 4 months and one
day. She will be laid to rest here
Saturday, February 3, with rites
at Kubena Funeral Home at 9:45
a.m. and Requiem, Mass at 10:00
a.m. in Sacred Heart Church of
which she was a respected, mem-
ber. Members of the KJZT socie-
ty, of which she was a valued
member, will attend in a body.
Melnar came to America in the
year 1884, settling with her par-
ents at Praha. Nee Ludmila Tich-
Addie Clark
Dies A t Hospital
Here On January 30
Unusually difficult driving
ditions were reported here
day by Mr. and Mrs. Lebert
ler who returned from Robi
where they visited relatives
Mr. Koehler reported ft
ball from Sinton to Woodi
then sleet to Refugio, sleet
heavy rains from Refugio t
chains
stalling
Mrs. R. Melnar
Expires January 30;
Funeral Set For Sat.
it was
on the
aeral services were held at
a. Thursday. February -J,
Kubena Funeral Home,
Rev. Henry Smith offlci|t
system, then
vote for the
wer proposals for a
1 be rejected, and
enlargement pass,
led, aa No. 1 must
■ may be authoriz
First, understand that the Calls
as they now are made in the age
groups ipust be filled by the
Boards as a4unit and not as a
ihall Moreland
where they made their home
Joseph Robert Franta, of the
local F and M Concrete Company
left Saturday for Bloomington, Ill
inois where he will attend a
school of concrete, masonry to ac-
quire additional knowledge of the
latest methods in constructing
concrete pipes, tanks, building
blocks and tiles of the type man-
ufactured here by the F and M
Company., .»•.'!
There were 13,287 bales of cot-
ton ginned in Lavaca County
from the crop of 1950 prior to
January 16,' 1951, as compared
with 25,413 bales ginned to Jan-
uary 16, 1950.
Frances Strauss, special agent
; RAIN THERE, LT. MATILDA JANAK
[S FROM HOSPITAL IN JAPAN
Guadalupe Valley and LaGrange
Co-Ops apparently had unintST*,'
rupted electrical service, althougb-
information was difficult t1 ob-
tained since many of rural resi- .l
dents could not be contacted by
phone late Wednesday.
Running from a half hour to
nearly two nours late here Tues- e
day, passenger busses failed te
Funeral services for William
H. J. Hillmer, 85, were held Wed-
nesday at 2 p.m. at the Moulton
Lutharan Church and Moulton
GUy Cemetery, with Rev. K. Wln-
desker officiating.
. Mr. Hillmer died January 29 at
the home of his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. August
Stoecker of near Winters, Texas,
where he bad made his home
since 1943. He had been in ill
health during the past two years.
The funeral services began at
Winters, with services Tuesday
morning at 10:30 a.m. from St.
John’s Lutheran Church with the
pastor, Rev. L. B. Braun offlciat-
er Stoecker, Irwin Ueckert, Bill
j Ifinzenmayer and Henry Goetz.
t Mr. Hillmer was born in Ger-
many, at Schwervarden. Olden-
tag. Pall bearers serving were
■.Newt Stoeoker, Carrol and Hom-
The worst cold spell of the win-
tar this Week made the most sen-
sational news of the year in and
around Hallettsville Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-
day because of the manner in
which streets, highways and side-
roads were coated with an unus-
ually* heavy layer of ice, formed
when a slow fall of sleet partly
melted, then froze again with a
— - _ ....___ . topping of Ught snow.
Fertsch were coming towards
town, at the hill and curve east
of Pecan Grove. It would have
overturned In a deep ditch, he
said, had it not struck a guard
post, causing about $20 damage
to the car.
, Two Other cars and a truck al-
so skidded from the ice-coated
highway at the same place, Mr.
Spanihel reported. They could
all be shoved around by hand
he said, explaining that
easy to push them back
road again..
Many cars were using
to help guard against
and skidding.
Death came to Mrs. Marshall
breland. 75 year old prominent
Kmett- citizen of Hallettsville,
U Renger Hospital Tuesday
orntag at io’ciock after a brief
Pall bearers were Pat Kelly, Ro
gan Beal, Jim Najvar, O. B. So-
kol, 0. T. Shoemake, and Julius
Mlkultnka.
Mrs. Marshall Moreland, nee
Annie Strickland, was born in
Brookhaven, Miss., October 19
1874. At the age of sixteen she
came to Texas, for a while mak-
ing her home with an aunt Mrs.
Samuel DevalL She taught in the
Hallettsville Public School for
four years. When her mother
Stories of extremely hazardous
driving conditions on highways
near Hallettsville continued to
come in here Thursday.-some of;
them revealing that cars could be
overturned and damaged on the
' \ drivers-
were going no faster than 10
miles per hour.) " _
Proof of the unusual danger
was supplied by Charles Spanihel
whose ’49 Mercury Was damaged
on the side Wednesday morning
near Paean Grove, on the Yoa-
kum highway at about 10 a.m.
Mr. Spanihel told of how his
car began skidding at 10 miles
per hour while he and Ernest
was cut off by a distant break in
LCRA lines. A phone call notified
LCRA representatives who sent
crews looking for the break*
doubtless caused by ice-laden
wires plus north winds that be-
COLD BLOW WITH
SNOW SHOWS
NEW LOW
NEW OLDS
TO BE SHOWN AT
land died August 6, 1934.
She is survived by one son, J.
R. Moreland of Houston; three ' ments made by Oldsmobile, both age group recently called balanc-
daughters, Mrs. J. P. Woods of in*®xterior design and engine per- ed off. the only difference was
Port Lavaca, Mrs. Bert Mitchell formatted due to the “98 Rocket” in the type of military service,
of Yoakum and Mrs. J. C. Melton engine's unusug! economy of ope- Men in Lavaca County, register
Jrf Houston and five grandchild- ration at all speeds. I ed w|th the Board and subject to
induction by our Board, can avail
themselves of this type of local
military service and training by
enlisting in the National Guard,
or by enlisting in the National
Guard, or by enlisting in the en-
listed reserve corps, a unit of
which is operating at Shiner.
Such ennlistments must be made
by the individual, howeyer, prior
J. R. Franta
Leaves To Attend
Concrete Work School
quarters fpr Select** SeWice’ta
Atistin, 1 waif told such ^toduc-1
tions could not be made on a
county basis but vfould have io
be done as presribeebby the reg
hfetlons, that is by age group by
a board as a unit. \
In addition to being unusually
thick, the layer of ice on streeta
and highways was unusually
slick, causing many automobiles
and trucks to skid broadsided
whenever they were stopped and
drivers attempted to start them
off again. Once halted on even
the slightest hills or upgrades,
cars were stalled, their wheels
spinning on ice that refused to
melt because of 20-degree tempe-
ratures that hung on while skies
were heavily overcast and more
light mist, snov.- and sleet added
to the hazards by coating wind-
shields and winoows both inside
and out, so that visibility was
“zero" more often than not
Starting with a low mark of 18
degrees Tuesday, the icy cold
snap hung on throughout the
morning with the mercury going
no higher than 21 degrees here,
while the “deepfreeze” weather
showed no signs of changing and
“Oldsmobile is confident that r
public acceptance of its new 1951
models will be gratifying as has
been experience! in the past sev-
eral years,” Joe Grafe said. “The
high standard of quality that
Oldsmobile has established thru
the years is being maintained,
with no sacrifice in appearance,
car life or performance. The 'Ro-
cket’ Engine and Oldsmobile’s
post-war styling both have con-
tributed heavily to Oldsmobile’s
record sales, which topped 387.-
000
Funeral services for Mbs Mar-
garet Addle Clark, who died at
Dufner Hospital here Tuesday,
day January 30, following a lin
gering illness, will be held at the
family cemetery near the Clark
homestead on the Ezzell road
south of hare, with Kubena Fun-
eral Home in charge of all ar-
rangements.
Rev. E. C. Lambert will off!
elate at the funeral which has
been announced for Saturday, 1
February 3, starting from Kube
na Funeral Home, thence to the
Clark family cemetery south of ,
town. The rites will regin at 2:30
p.m.
Pall bearers -will be Ike Ander-
son, Rogan Beal, Dr. C. A. Clark,
C. F. .Wyatt, Jimmy Strole ami
Alton Allen, j
Bom at Hallettsville, Miss
Clark had spent her entire life in
this community where she was
counted among the best known
citizens, a member of the prom-
inent and widely known Clark
family. Respected by all who I
knew her, she leaves to mourn I
enlarge the light plant on
purpose would amount to vw, ve^i.-vw
$125,000 for enlargement.) But, it must he remembered,
that to vote to enlarge the “preoont plant, one must also
vote for proposition No. 1.
‘If a person only desires a
he should vote foir No. 1 and b
$97,000 refund and the $150/
total of $247,000.
If a person favors all thre<
Second, following this confer-
ence, I checked the files of the
Board and found that the reason
why more men in the recent calls
were available from this county
to our board as a unit; 103 men
from Gonzales County, ordinarily
____„... - ______ subject to call by our Board and
GRAFF AND HFMMIin the same age group as lbose
UIUiTLi mil/ Ill/lUIVll recently called, had enlisted and
------ ! were members of the National
The 1951 model Oldsmobile, the I Guard unit at Gonzales and were
Rocket 98, will have its first' not available to us as a Board for
“They have a lot^of cute pup-
pies here. I took some pictures
of them, and hope they will tyrn <
the following dsserip- out alright They tell me that
ve to her sister, Miss during the war you couldn’t Ise
home in Yoakum.
On July 3, 1898. she married showing in Hallettsville Saturday induction; correspondingly, a
Halletts- at the Grafe and Henuni show- very few men from this county
_ j room, co-manager Joe Grafe an-1 had availed themselves of this
all of their married life. Mr. More nounced today. He promised that type of military service; all in all.
prospective car buyers would be the number of men in military
pleased with the latest advance- service from each county in the
Should No, 1. the refund
>ther two, the MT
all three auton
pass before the
In this issue of the New Era-Heijald, on page 6, you
will find the proposed revenue bond election notice.
This has become a very controversial question, not
only among members of the city council, but also with those
who live in the city of Hallettsville.
According to the notice of election, the tax paying
property owners of Hallettsville will have thrqe proposals
on which to vote. These proposals are: first, a $97,000 re-
fund on .the present outstanding indebtedness of the City
of Hallettsville, which is the remainder of a $125,000 rev-
enue bond issue that was voted a few years ago.
Second, a proposal for $125,000 for the purpose of
buying a 1600 hp engine, to manufacture electricity. This
will more than double the present capacity of the city
plant.
And third, a $150,000 revenue bond issue for the pur-
pose of extending and building a new sanitary sewage
disposal plant.
As one looks at the proposal, it amounts to a total oi
$372,000. All of this amount, if passed, it to be paid from
the Revenue of the city light, water and sewer plant, with
the majority to come from the light si
However, if we break it down ahc
the total
The Tempera’urc-
January 29
January 30
January 31
February 1
A new low mark for average
temperatures over a 4-day period
went on record here this week
when the mercury stayed closer
to the 20-degree mark over a long
er stretch of cold days and nights
than could be found anywhere
in the record books of previous
i years at the local station.
Slow moving snow clouds and anj repaired by San Bernard Co-
winds, first reaching here early . Op crews, then the entire ares
Sunday, January 28, continued to “ * ------* ’ —*■ ““
move down from snow-covered
northern regions, bringing to this
area a variety of weather includ-
ing everything from hail and
sleet to mist and snow and light
rain, adding up to a layer of ice; came stronger Wednesday,
on the ground varying in thick- ’ Western and northern Lavaca
ness from 1-2 inch to 1 inch, with j County, the areas served by tbs
greater depths noted wherever
drifts had gathered.
Thursday’s low was 15 degrees.
skies were dark and heavily OVtF
cast although there was only •
modrate wind continuing from
the north.
Drifts of soldified sleet,, wtm
only a light trace of snow, varied
in depth from one inch or less te
several inches, with the entire
countryside taking on the appsas
ance of a northern, snow-covtrOO
region. t
Although Tuesday's low mart
was 18 degrees and Wednesday^
low was 20 in Hallettsville, muob
lower temperatures were report*
ed aear town. At the Joe A. Grab
mann farm, northeast of hero the
lows were 15 and 14 for the IMM
two days. Between one-half and
one inch of ice covered the
ground at his home, he said, and
reported also that REA electriel-
ty was cut off Wednesday morn-
ing for some unknown reason.
The area, around Sublime, he
said, was also without electric
current for light, power and
heating due to failure of the ru-
ral lines to stand up under the
severe icing conditions.
Many farmers were believed 10
be confronted with new nrot'ems
wherever they were counting on
electric heat for homes, chicken
brooders, tomato plant hotbeds
and other uses. Poultry and cat*
tie losses due to the prolonged
freeze were reported increasing
Wednesday when there was still
no sign of moderation in the se-
vere “blizzard” conditions.
Later information Wednesday
revealed that part of eastern La-
vaca County was without electric
current since 4:30 a.m. Wednes-
j day due to a local break found
. As a member of the Selective
Service Board for Lavaca County,
Texas, I feel an explanation la
necessary to the people of the
county to account for the reason l^n a ,conference with State Head iqy roads even though
why the numfeei^o^ men " -h.
Lavaca County, irf:
calls for. induction I
the: number . G
The Hallettsville Fire
Department has cancelled
its regular meeting sched-
uled for tonight (Thurs-
day) February 1, due to
the continued freezing
temperatures. The meet-
ing has been set for Tues-
day night, February 13,
which is glso the regular
practice night of the de-
partment.
Firemen
take notice of this change,
as apprentice f Lr em a n
names will come up at the
meeting for voting as well
as other changes and a-
mendments in the by-laws
of the department. Be sure
to attend the rescheduled
meeting, Tuesday, F e b-
ruary 13.
Selective Seivice Explained By
Membei of Board
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Minear, Virgil. New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1951, newspaper, February 2, 1951; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1177664/m1/1/?q=%221964~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.