The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 8, 1952 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME XXI.
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1952
PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS
IKIItl 11
“The Community and Whole County Stand or Fall With the Farmers.” .
Lavaca County’s Paper
With the Largest County
Circulation!
FIRST IN PRESTIGE
The Livestock
Capital of South
Central Texas
No. 28
A. C. Appell, Jr,, Carries Off Top
Honors At Appelt’s Hill Shoot
- » »
A. C. Appelt, Jr., carried off
top honors in the big skeet
shoot held by the Appelt’s Hill
Skeet Club, at Appelt’s Hill,
Sunday. Young Appelt shot a
total of 96 in the two 50-shot
rounds. His grand prize award
was a camp stove.
A C. Appelt, Sr., his father,
took second place honors in the
two 50-shotevents, with a total
score of 96. The Appelts are
from Schulenburg.
Bill Morley shot third with
a total of 91 for the twin
rounds. Fourth place went to F.
S. Tarpley of Gonzales, who to-
Town Closes Good
Friday Afternoon
This town will again close
on Good Friday afternoon as it
did other year?.
Special services will be held
at the Catholic Church in the
morning and also from 12 noon
on in the afternoon.
In the Lutheran Church con-
fessional service Thursday, 7:30
p. m. and regular service at 8
p. m. On Good Friday after-
noon .special services at 2 p. m.
taled 86 in the two rounds.
Ben Linhart won booby prize
for the after, with a score of
16 in a single round.
The results In the two events
went as follows, showing prize,
score, and who donated the
prize. |
First 50-Round Event
' 1. A: C. Appelt, Jr., score of
49, received a 14-piece Camp
See HONORS p. 5 c. 3 t
■ i— « —» j
Legion Baseball
Uniforms Arrive
The baseball uniforms, to be
worn this season and future
seasons by the Hallettsville
American Legion team arrived
at Werner’s Sporting Goods
Store, Saturday. The uniforms
air gray with blue stripes and
lettering: on the front of the
shirts is the wording “Post No,
230’’. The uniforms were pur-
chased by Kallus Motor Sales,
and carry the word “Ford" uq
the back of each shirt.
Two Years to Two Youthful Cattle
Rustlers - More Awaiting Here
345 Vote In
Fire damage to Hager’s Food
Store in Wharton early last
last Thursday was set at $75,-
000. The building and all its
contents were completely des,’
troyed.
Mrs. Hager is a sister to Mr, J
<Rogan Beal of Hallettsville,
bout 4:30 a. m. by an unident-
ified bread salesman, who call-
ed the Fire Department and told
of seeing a red glow in the rear
of the building as he made his
rounds. -'r-
Firemen said the blaze had
traveled through ventilation
ducts and had gained a foothold
in the attic before they arrived.
The fire burned more than two '
hours and 30 minutes uncheck-
ed by the firemen, but was pre-
vented from spreading to ad-
jacent structures.
Fire Marshall Donald Barbe®
said the blaze apparently start- \
ed in a central heating unit. B.
D. King owner, said the build-
ing loss amount to more than
$25,000.
S. E. Hager, store owner, said
the loss of stock and fixtures
amounted to more than $50,-
000. He said this was only par-
tially covered by insurance.
Election Sat
Three hundred and forty-five
votes were cast in the Trustee
Election of the Hallettsville In-
dependent School district here
Saturday.
Clayton Bennett recevied 323
votes, Cecil Shirley 316, and
Grady Whitley 304 votes. There
was nompposition officially fil-
led, butwveral names were writ
ten in.
In charge of the voting here
were E. O. Kilpatrick, Chair-
man, Hubert Spies and Ben
Appelt.
ranch.
The two were placed in the-
county jail .awaiting action of a
Lavaca County Grand Jury on
a similar charge pf cattle theft
in Lavaca County.
—Cuero Record
Cuero, April 5th = Alfonso
Kurtz, 17, and Frank Vinklarek,
18, both of the Cheapside com-
munity, charged with cattle
theft, pleaded guilty before
Judge Howard Green in the 24th
District Court Saturday.
Judge Green sentenced the
pair to two years each in the
state penitentiary.
Kurtz and Vinklarek were
charged with rustling several
cattle from the Arthur Steen
ranch at Cheapside on Jan. 4,
and later selling the cattle at an
auction in Gonzales.
Constable Claude Booth of De-
Witt and Frank McGrew of La-
vaca counties nabbed the pair
after they had cashed a check
for $1,444.50 at a Yoakum bank.
Nine cows and two calves
were taken from the Steen
Oil Activity
Continues Uptrend
Oil activity in Lavaca Coun-
ty continues on an uptrend,
with several wells holding the
spotlight.
The Laas well at Hackberjy
drew sudden attention whdn- it
was reported to have blowh
temporarily out of control over
the week-end. Indications of
crude oil have been found, ac-
cording to unofficial reports.
Work continues at the well.
Alex W. Head No. 1 Stella
Woytek, Lavaca County wildcat
area, was at 9,212 feet in side-
tracked hole Saturday morning,
See OIL WELLS p. 3 c. 1
Wrecks Occur
Over Week-End
The Highway Patrol reported
three automobile accidents dur
ing the weekend.
On Highway 200, east of
Hallettsville, Saturday night at
8:45 a 1948 Chevrolet-, driven
by Albin Lawrence Woytek,
overturned when it ran intft a
ditch to avoid collision with
another car. Woytek was going
past and in attempting to pass
another car he noticed an on-
coming third car; He took to
See WRECKS p. 4 c. 5
• r
See MENKING p. 5 c. 5
de-
Gun Shot Kills
still
Shiner Boy Sun.
District Court
J.
Manager of 1952 Club, Fri. Night
See Banquet p. 4 c. 4
the
Captain Leaper Willoughby of
assistant -to Wer-
for
to be one of
remem-
here.
should not be left so forgotten.
at
in
becausf
provid-
Texas
meant
10c for child-
the tickets ft
a short
Parr’s
stood
Tom
Parr
Pat
time,
fami-
expected this morning, Monday.
Watch your dog for rabies.
Everett Rerfger will be
speaker at the Sacred
P. T. A. meeting Monday
7th at 7:45 p. m. at the
Casket
too young to
I?
to
the
in-
DR EVERETT RENGER
GUEST SPEAKER
day,
rict
ing..
well
Donna Kaye Williams, Texas
1952 Easter girl, surveys the
more than a million envelopes
containing sheets of 1952 East-
er Seals which are being sent
to homes throughout/Texas this
Week as the annual Easter Sea)
Campaign to help crippled chil-
dren gets underway. > /
Donna Kaye was chosen/as
typical of the states crippled
children who are benefiting from
treatment received at the cere-
bral centers financed through
Easter Seal funds.
A victim of cerebral palsy due
several* years,
the diamond i-
To go south from here, it
won’t be necessary to go west
first, to Yoakum and then
south. Just as now to go east
It’s not necessary to go north
first, to Schulenburg, as it us-
ed to bet. » » - - -•
So at least two officers in
the Texas Army of Revolution
So'also Yoakum reports a
(W heavy vote. In El Campo it
was “the biggest turnout of vot-
1s in the history”. Also the
presidential primaries show
heavy voting. The people seem
to be more interested in their
elections than ever, which is a
good sign.
Dr.
guest
Heart
April
Parish Hall.
And as, Judge Paul Fertsch
reports, the farm to market
road will be extended from
Vienna to Speaks. This will res-
cue those people there from
the ancient mud. It also will
give this city a better outlet to
Gqnado and in that direction.
Gradually is this city being re-
lieved of its highway handicaps
Menfa'ng Features
Free Movie Here
getting the dia-
here were irnmedi-
Now no matter what hap-
pens to these heroic memor-
ies. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Goedecke, at the Memori-
al Park will stand a monu-
ment honoring these names.
...Even should the people for-
get again, the " stone will
~ -- - -
i the San Jacinto fame will be
forgotten no more. Both his
a memory and his grave were
found. His grave on Tom Parr’s
■ farm may be unmarked but not
" unknown any more. •__
from Tom
the Lavacans
Own
was
the old captain. But they
that he made his own cas
Theodore Malcom Siebenhaii-
sen, age 15, of Shiner, died in
the Wagner Hospital in that
city, Sunday, April 6, at 2:10
p. m., after he was accidently
shot in the abdomen shortly be
fore 2:00 p. m., Sunday.,
According to reports reach-
ing the Tribune, young Sieben-
hausen was • pulling a boat to-
ward a creek at his home, and
was holding a gun in his hand.
It is said the gun fell, and dis-
charged, the charge striking
him in the stomach.
The boy was rushed to the
hospital by the Roeder Funeral
Home ambulance, and he died St
2:10 p. m.
The deceased was born Sept.
8, 1936, and had been living
with his mother, Mrs. Ann Si'e-
benhausen, in Shiner for some
time. Other survivors are a sis-
ter, Rose Marie, grandparents
and several aunts and-unejes.
Funeral services will be held
this morning, Tuesday, April
8th, at 8:45 a. m. at the Roe-
der Funeral Home, and at the
Shiner Catholic Church at 9:00
a. m. Rosary will be recited to-
night, Monday, at 7:30 p. m. at
the funeral home.
The family home is near the
Catholic School gymnasium. The
father died some time ago.
The mother .is employed
the Kopecky Flower Shop
Yoakum.
Fun Fair Fiesta
Thursday, April 17
"riie Fun Fair Fiesta will be
LINE or TWO *
By Waiter Male© W
and two children. -----
The Confederate, and the vet-
erans of other wars have their
white markers, as should be.
But here the old soldier of San
Jacinto rests in an unmarked
grave. And his memory almost
equally forgotten. This
ho state markers were
ed for the soldiers of
Revolution. Those who
so much, were remembered so
little. Perhaps something yet
should be done abotft these for-
gotten Texas heroes.
Tour of the Holy Lands
feature^ in one of two films
in color on a
and shot
was sent
ation by
Health.
All dogs in Hallettsville, there
lore, should be watched from
9 to 21 days for indications of
rabies. The mad dog definitely
bit several other dogs in that
area. The dog was a small,
white shaggy animal.
A report from Austin is
In the presidential primaries
first Eisenhower was leading.
. Bat in Wisconsin and Neb-
raska, Taft showed a greater
strength. - In this struggle
between the candidates,
. mocracy is in action.
Illegal Hunting
Reward Offered
In a meeting of the Directors
of the Lavaca-Colorado County
Game Conservation Association,
last month, it was voted to of-
fer a reward to anyone who re-
ports anyone who hunts unlaw-
fully in Lavaca and Colorado
Counties.
Provisions offer a $25 re-
ward to anyone reporting the il
legal killing of deer out of sea-
son,'and the same reward for
reporting anyone who kills a doe
or too many Sucks during the
season.
The Association also agreed
to offer a $10 reward for in-
formation leading to the appre-
hension and conviction of any-
one killing squirrels, quail or
doves out of season ,or killing
more than the limit during
season.
6:00 p. m„ by
Seeing the dog
and biting oth-
obtained \a gun
Grange. Weimar is also inter-
ested. League ‘play will open
May 11, with the schedule io
be published sooh.
In Friday night’s meeting
here in the County Court Room
the Lavacans elected “Red”
Calhoun as manager, assisted
by Jack Lindsey. Carlwin Wer-
ner was elected • Business Man-
ager, and Richatrd Malec was
chosen as
ner.
Plans for
mond ready
ately set, and Joe Appelt wil
be contacted about arragements
for cutting the grass, etc.
the season.
Enthusiam ran high in
meeting Friday night, and
See LAVACANS p. 5 c. 1
When the Victoria highway
is completed, this city will be-
come one of the most import-
ant highway crossings in this
part of the state. For the Pan-
— / American and the shortest Hou-
ston - San Antonio highways
wifi meet here.
be shewn here
program being arranged by O.
L. Menking, local Minneapoiis-
Molirte- farm implement dealer.
The program will be held in the
Recreation Hall here, Tuesday,
'April 15, at 8:00 p. m.
Addmission will be FREE to all.
The film featuring the tour of
the Holy Lands is entitle^
“Crossroads of the Cross” and
shows not only places that art
associated with the life of
Christ but also what is taking
place in surrounding countries
as well. This colorful film r«S-
veals modern developments, es^
pecially in agriculture, in the
country that was the birthpace
of many creeds. v.
The other film in color to b^
Captain Leaper Willoughby
of San Jacinto fame died m this
county in 1874. But like his
memory, his grave, too, was
generally forgotten. *
The official record'ls meager.
This old soldier came to Tex-
as early. He was one of the
signers of the Brazoria petition
for “consultation” among the
settlers. He was also in the bat-
tle of Velasco in 1832. And in
the war of 1836 he served as
a private and rose to the rank
of a captain.
He married a girl from Fort
Bend County and settled here.
But then his trace disappears.
No record of him among the
first voters, nor property own-
ers of 1846. Nor did the old-
timers remember Capt. Wil-
loughby.
Did he' settle in town ? Or was
it Somewhere else? Was he’far-
ming or doing something else?
Both Strangers
He was an equally myster-
ious figure as another San Ja-
cinto soldier. Colonel Amasa
Turner. Official records place
Col. Turner here. He In fact be-
Opens Here Today
District Court opened for the
The city is paying its share
of all the street work, includ-
ing the highways, as Mayor M.
I. Bozka points out. Contrary to
some rumors, the state highway
dept. is. not paying -this cost.
Here are the facts: —
Highway 200
There are approximately 38,-
663% feet of curbing and gut-
ters, costing $5,579.98, paid by
property owners on said high-
way. The cpy paid for the pave-
ment and laying of storm sewer
pipes, $6,600.52, a total of $12,-
180.50, transferred to State
Highway Dept, for this work.
Moving- water, sewer mains,
light poles, furnishing one block
of storm sewer pipes cost an ad-
ditional $3,000. Cost to the city
was approximately $10,000.
The Breslau — Hallettsville
Farm-to-market road No. 957 a-
long La Grange street has 3,-
689 ‘/2 ft. of curbing and gut-
ters costing $6,457.75, paid by
property owners along the
His Memory Not Forgotten ‘ -
Unmarked Grave of Capt. Willoughby of San Jacinto Fame Found On Farm
City Paying Its Share For
Street Work, Mayor Points Out
The last city election here
produced a record vote. Al-
most everybody voted. There
were five candidates for the
council, all good men. The
people voted for whoever they
wanted, as is their privilege.
to a birth injury, Donna Kaye,
two and a half year old daugh-
ter- of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wil-
liams, Dallas, is learning to
stand with the help of braces
and physical therapy. Donna
Kjiye is only one of the thou-
sands of children-helped by the
Easter Seal Societies.
The nationwide Easter Seal
Campaign will continue through
Easter Sunday, April 13. Contri-
butions can be made to "Crip-
pled children” care of your local
postoffice.
street. The city paid $3,000 for
12 ft. -of extra pavement. The
State Highway Dept, paved 24
feet and the city 12 feet. The
eity also paid for moving all
storm, sewer" and water pipes
and light poles at approximate
cost of $1,000. The city also
guarantees any additional a-
mount above the $3,000 the
work may cost.
£8,000,65 was paid last year
for topping the 32 blocks in
the city limits, being main-
tenance of cjty streets out-
side of highways and Farm-
to-market roads; total coist
paid by the city.
The Cemetery road from Ridge
See PAVING p. 4 c. 3
Lions Banquet
Is Big Event
The Annual Charter Night
Banquet of the Lions Club was
agaip a big event for a large
orowd in the Parish Hall,
Thursday night. Guests of. the
event were the Lionesses, Rot-
arians and their Rotary Anns.
Morris Frank, well known
writer, now With the Houston
Chronicle, kept the crowd well
entertained, during his talk
There were plenty of laughs, as
Mr. Frank carried on in his en-
tertaining manner. ' .
The banquet program was pre-
sided over by Lign Er evident
G H. Gerdej^ wMh-SenatoF Qus
Strauss as Master of Cere-
^S*even more significant. The u-
TjioBff" fight him more than they
<fid anybody before. Still Taft
■ is winning. That is, the people
are also winning against the
unions.
But the steel strike is
threatening. And the Western
Union and other strikes are on.
There our soldiers are fighting
and dying, while here the un-
ions are striking. Nothing
shows better just what the
unions are. It’s something else
besides democracy.
loughby home was near where
Rud Sciba’s home stands. And
their family graves are
distance
home.
His
“I
ber
said
ket and kept it under his bed,
till his death in 1874.”
“The Willoughbys had only 1
daughter who married a man
by the name of Snyder. Both
of their children died and so
with them the Willoughby’s
family disappeared from
At the Hero’s Grave
Shortly afterward wc
at the hero’s grave on
Parr farm, where Mrs.
directed us. Distr. Clerk
Kelly was our guide this
since Mr. Mallick was not
liar with this section.
Only two old cedars and a
large hackberry mark'this spot
remaining untouched In the
field. There are several stones,
but no marker. Five graves are
supposed to be there: the old Only that old soldier’s grave
hero his wife, their daughter
came the first state represen-
tative, then senator frofnThis
county. And he served, as also
discovered later, on the first
school board here. Yet he was
utterly unknown, until Mrs. I-
da Wade of Hackberry came
to the rescue with her letter,
as Col. Turner’s descendant. His
family graveyard is in the Hack-
berry section, while his own
grave is in Gonzales, where he
spent his last years and died.
So also someone came to the
rescue of Capt. Wjlloughby’a
memory. >•
It was Miss Fannie Peterson,
already 89, living with her sis-
ter, Mrs. E. J. Tarkihgton,
Thbugh just recently she cele-
brated her 89th birthday, Miss
Peterson’s mind and memory
are quite fresh and active. The
Petersons were also early set-
tlers, coming here from Missis-
sippi before the.Civil War. And
they happened to be Willough-
by’s neighbors.
“Their place could be seen
from ours”, Miss Peterson re-
calls. It was on the present
Victoria highway. “The Wil-
Mad Dog Is
Killed Here
A mad dog was killed on
Sacred Heart School grounds
last Friday at
Robert Pesek.
running wildly,
er dogs, Pesek
the animal The head
to Austin, lor exemin
the State Dept. of
To get to Tom Parr’s place
you drive through a lane al-
most completely enclosed with
green trees and vines.A short
distance to the right stands
Rud. Sciba’s home cleanly
painted. There is also Fred Ur-
bish’s neat place, and others a-
long this highway.
Soon will appear the new
home of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Kel-
ly. He himself also comes from
an early pioneer family.
It’s already evident, what a
fine highway this is going to be.
The Hallettsville Lavacans,
a name' that* has made base-
ball history in this part of Tex-
as in the past
will appear on
gain this year.
Friday night
re-organized for the 1952 sea-
son as a member oLihe Guada-
lupe Valley League. Teams now
included in the league are Yoa-
kum, Gonzales, Seguin, Luling,
Hallettsville, and probably La
1.11(7 X Crti H1J vJUl-H/ll | XlltZ X Mil J. till T ICold Will U’-
j were identified with this aoun- presented Thursday night, April
ty: Colonel Amasa Turner who 17, at 8:30 p m in the high
died in 1877, and Captain Wil-
? loughby who passed away 3 yrs.
S > earlier. Both were equally for-
gotten here, together with the
< “^thers who did so much but
’ wSre remembered so little.
. The big unions strike not
ffor rights, bat for privileges.
Not tor justice, but for power.
Not against industry, but the
people themselves. And the
people can tolerate ttiis tyran-
ny no more than others^ This
in fact is our fundamental is-
school gym. Tickets for this
colorful stage show will be on
sale Wednesday, April 9. These
tickets will be sold by school
students. The modest prices q^e
35c for adults and
ren. Chairman of
Virgil Minear.
“This promises
the most entertaining events of
the season. With a ‘South of
the Border’ atmosphere, plays
pageants, songs, dances, and a
See FIESTA p. ^ c. 4
.. L'ldlULl VUUI L UptllCU 1U1 lllc
Hence the Taft strength is Spring term here today, Mon-
“ ’ " with the Honorable Dist-
Judge Lester Holt presid-
Several criminal cases as
as civil are expected to
come up during this term.
The Grand Jury consists of
Rudolph Bordovsky, HaUetts-
Wef "Wniie NiWosad, Mmjltbff!
Herman Hanslik, Moulton; T..
H Deborah, Yoakum; Chas O
Grafe, Hallettsville; Julitis J
Vrana, Shiner; Ahton Netar-
dus, Hallettsville; Rud. Freyfag
Shiner; TEmil R Hrncir, Halletts
ville; W. O Afflerbach, Yoakum
Henry F Lorfing, Hallettsville,
and Herbert Becker, Yoakum.
Farley Tifrk is door bailiff;
Zat Johnson, Frank McGrew,
and August Baca, are-- riding
bailiffs. --~-r
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