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Community
Newspaper
Volume 75/ Number 3
New Ulm, Austin County/ Texas 78950 Thursday/ November 8/ 1984 20c a copy
Cemetery Vandalism
The Second Annual Austin County
Charity Football Game is scheduled
for Saturday night, November 17 at
the Bellville High School Stadium.
The Charity Football Game fea-
tures the Choirboys, a squad made
up of DPS, Austin County and other
law enforcement officers who will
play the game against the County
Firefighters, a squad made up of
Austin County Volunteer Firemen
and friends.
It will be a full pads regular
football game of 12-minute quarters.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Admission to the game will be a
donation of canned goods or non-
perishable food products that will be
used to provide Thanksgiving Food
Baskets for needy families in Austin
The folks who keep the hallowed
grounds clean and neat all year
round were faced with the task of
cleaning up before some scheduled
funerals.
Our cemeteries are not a play-
ground for the disrespectful and
undisciplined, but a final solemn
resting place for families, friends,
ancestors and pioneers.
WINNERS - President Ronald Reagan and Phil Gramm were big winners in
Tuesday’s General Election, both carrying Austin County and Texas by a
wide margin.
Whatever dividing line there is
between post-Halloween "fun” and
willful vandalism was shamefully
exceeded here in New Ulm, ap-
parently Friday night.
On Saturday morning, caretakers
of the New Ulm Cemetery found
toilet paper strewn all about, the
area in a mess, evidence of some
misguided and tasteless "prank”.
on the squads. Most all the Fire
Departments in Austin County will
have representatives on the Fire-
fighters team.
Representing the New Ulm Volun-
teer Fire Department are Donald
Brokmeyer, Travis Demehl, Mike
Dungen, Fritz Brokmeyer and Gary
Easterling. Representing the Cat
Spring Volunteer Fire Department
are Randy Reichardt, Mark Hill,
Billy Janwich, Steve Reichardt,
Warren Severin and Bull Burtt-
sc hell.
Players from this area on the
Choir Boys (Cops) squad are Mark
Ackley, Reuben Gonzales and Den-
nis Peschel.
(Continued on Page 2)
Charity Football
Game November 17
News
By Mrs. I-eRoy Luetge
Landslide! Mandate! Sweep! Whatever you want to call it - it
happened as President Reagan and Vice President George Bush,
now-Senator Phil Gramm and now-Congressman Mac Sweeny all
were elected to office in Tuesday’s General Election. What
happened in Texas happened in other places across this nation as
the American people sent a strong signal in this election, which
provided a very clear choice among the candidates. It was all
coupled with a super heavy voter turnout where the complacency
possibility (created by the polls) disappeared as people went out
to vote and made those votes count. For those who watched the
late-night returns saw pretty well that the American voters are
catching on to that process of splitting up their vote, voting split
ticket and not blindly following the party line. Ironically, that's
the way the Founding Fathers of this Nation envisioned the voting
process. Political parties were later inventions. On Wednesday
morning, there was quite a bit of speculation on the part of
Democratic Party leaders on how county-level Democratic
candidates could be elected when the top of the ticket got whipped
rather handily. In reality, the voting pattern of the nation is
changing, or rather returning to what it was many years ago
where states had something to say. In the last three Presidential
Elections, a former State Governor has been the winner. It’s a
sort of refinement of the old “crawl before you walk, walk before
you run" theory worked up to "govern a state, then govern a
nation.” You can’t lead people by following the dictates of the
party caucus. Seems like another election reflection was that Tip
O'Neill took a pretty good beating in Texas. President Reagan ran
pretty good in Massachusetts, too, which ought to make “Tip and
Teddy” (Kennedy) have to "grin and bear it”.
Inyce, Edwin, and Darrell Ander-
son were Sunday guests of Birdie
Luetge.
Ida laietge visited with her broth-
er Charlie Stoelke on Thursday of
last week. Charlie lives in Fayette-
ville.
Bertha Barnett accompanied sev-
eral ladies from the West End
Baptist Church to a Ladies' Retreat
in Austin from Friday unbl Saturday
of the past weekend.
Geraldine lAietge attended the
Retired Teachers' Association in
Bellville on Thursday of last week.
The charter members were honored
and remembered (five are
deceased: with a special program
presented by Hillia Donahue. Miss
Gertrude Niebuhr was a charter
member, and also the president of
the organization for the first two
terms. She was in attendance along
with a large number of the mem-
bers.
IcRoy Luetge, 1-ee and Hertha
Kruse of (^Grange. visited in
Victoria with Olga Kruse last Thurs-
day. Olga is the last of the Luetge
sisters living. She is ninety years
old. She is LeRoy's sister, lee's
Schoenau
News
aunt.
Acknowledgments this week go to
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kiemsteadt of
Bellville and Kenney. Also to Ray
Dungen for editing, and to Mrs.
Dungen and Lynette Voskamp for all
the assistance they have given.
In the book entitled SAFE PIEC-
ES by David and Holly Franke we
find this comment in the Acknowl-
edgments page.
"loiter, in Texas, there were more
memorable evenings with David’s
relatives and family. We caught up
with everything that was happening
in the sports world (especially
Texas i from his enthusiastic young-
er brother Danny, and we stuffed
ourselves on the delicious home-
made dewberry' pie of his Aunt
Norma. And we couldn't forget our
fun evening with Charlie and Ruby
Glass and their versatile clan, not to
mention their most unusual South
American birds."
The Aunt Norma mentioned is of
course Norma Franke of Industry.
She is the one who supplied the book
for our review. Next week will begin
a review of some of the "safe
places."
| Around Here
I This is a New Ulm Enterprise feature about your friends and
1 neighbors around here..............
County.
ihe County Firefighters won last
year's game 6-0.
A number of area players will be
Weiss
Mai
Funeral
Services
Rev. Dennis Keen has recently moved to Industry and is now serving the
West End Baptist Church as its Pastor. His wife, Sheila, son Ryan age 7,
daughter Amanda 4 years and Chris 1 year, have all moved here from
Houston.
Funeral
Services
Funeral Services for Dr. Ernest
W. Weiss, 76, of San Antonio will be
held in Industry Friday, November
9, at 1:00 p.m. at the Industry Un
ited Methodist Church.
Dr. Weiss, a renowned Medical
Missionary who served in China and
later Korea for 36 years, passed
away at home in San Antonio on
Tuesday, November 6.
The body will be at Zaskoda
Chapel in Industry from 6:00 p.m.
Thursday until noon Friday.
Interment will be in the Church
Cemetery.
Bom at Phillipsburg October 25,
1908, he attended the Rockhouse
Public Schools, the Industry School,
Blinn College, Cincinnati Univer-
sity, and others.
Survivors include his wife, Hilda
of San Antonio; two daughters,
Betty and Beatrice and their hus-
bands; three grandchildren; two
sisters, Mrs. Ella Hupe of Rosenberg
and Mrs. Alma Moeller of Houston;
and three brothers. Rev. Edwin
Weiss of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rev.
Paul Weiss of Weslaco and Herman
Weiss of Fayetteville
Funeral Services for Mrs. Alma
Caroline (Paul) Mai, were held
Sunday, November 4, at 1:00 p.m. at
St. John Lutheran Church in New
Ulm with Rev. Lynn Rostedt officia-
ting.
Interment was in the New Ulm
Cemetery
Mrs. Mai, 91, passed away Thurs-
day, November 1, 1984 in the
Columbus Hospital.
Bom in New Ulm July 13,1893, she
was the daughter of John and
Antonia Bader. She married Paul
Mai October 10,1912 in New Ulm. He
preceded her in death July 13,1975
Surviving are three grandchild-
ren, Ruby Sheffield of Lumberton,
Norbert Mai of Baton Rouge, La.
and Dyana Booker of Columbus; two
sisters, Toni Pechacek cf New Ulm
and Lydia Bastian of Sealy; 9 great -
grandchildren and 4 great - great -
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her
husband and also a son, Norbert
who died in 1980.
Pallbearers were Mike Booker,
Scott Sheffield, Brent O’Brien, J. E.
Sheffield, Norb Mai and James
Booker.
Zaskoda Chapel of Industry and
Koenig-Peel Funeral Home, Inc. of
La Grange were in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Reagan, Bush,
Gramm, Sweeny Win
President Ronald Reagan, Vice
President George Bush, Phil
Gramm and Mac Sweeny headed up
the winners on the Austin County
ballot in Tuesday’s General Elec-
tion.
Reagan-Bush and Gramm literal-
ly swamped the opposition in Austin
County as well as in Texas enroute to
victory.
Sweeny, who unseated longtime
incumbent Bill Patman, ran strong
in Austin County and in Congression-
al District 14, but the margin of
victory was quite a bit smaller than
the Presidential and Senate races
Sweeny took Austin County by a
bare 28-vote margin, 3339 to 3311. In
the 14th District Sweeny beat Pat-
man 98,171 to 94,820.
Those totals were not finalized
until mid-moming Wednesday when
all 408 precincts were finally in.
Heavy voting and slow counting in
Washington and Williamson Coun-
ties kept the outcome in doubt until
early morning.
President Reagan and Vice Presi-
dent Bush took Austin County 4872 to
1941 for Mondale -Ferraro while Phil
Gramm swamped Lloyd Doggett
4467-2247 for the U.S. Senate seat
from Texas vacated by John Tower.
On the local Austin County level,
Betty Krueger beat Pat Krupala for
County Treasurer by 3734 to 2909,
Curtis Luedke narrowly outpolled
Rath
Funeral
Services
Artemas E. Rath, 71, of Brenham,
passed away Thursday, November
1,1984.
Funeral Services for Mr. Rath
were held at the Chapel of the Pete
E. Etlinger Funeral Home in Bellvil-
le at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, November 4
with Rev. William Rotter officiating.
Interment was in New Ulm Ceme-
tery.
Bom at New Ulm May 29,1913, he
was the son of Charles and Marie
Rath. He attended New Ulm School,
was a Veteran of World War II,
serving in the U. S. Army and was
employed by the Brenham Cotton
and Oil Mill. He never married.
Surviving are sisters, Mrs. E. G.
Rudloff of Sealy, Mrs. Ema Bregen-
zer of Houston. Mrs. Paul Wittner of
Brenham and Mrs. B. D. Breakfield
of Houston; one brother, Henry Rath
of Houston; a number of nieces and
nephews.
Pallbearers were Lonnie Bregen-
zer, Marion Powell, Herbert Blaze.
Paul Wittner, Floyd Gaskamp and
Richard Huettel.
(Continued on Page 2)
Uhlig
Funeral
Services
Graveside Services and interment
for Edwin Uhlig of Hungerford were
held at the Cat Spring Cemetery
Saturday, November 3, 1984 at 4
p.m. with Rev. William Rotter
officiating.
Mr. Uhlig, 84, passed away Thurs-
day, November 1, in an Eagle Lake
nursing heme.
Bom at Cat Spring October 29,
1900, he attended school at Bretschn-
eider and married Violet Gruesen
August 5,1925 in Columbus. He was
a mechanic by occupation.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
Gladys Hlavinka of East Bernard;
two nephews. Lee and Ruben Kve-
ton; one granddaughter, Susan Hla-
vinka of Austin.
He was preceded in death by his
parents, his wife on May 29, 1982,
one sister and one brother
Pallbearers were Ruben Kveton.
Emmett Kveton, larry Uhlig, Ro-
bert Prause. Joe Chumchai Jr. and
Robert Minks
The Pete Etlinger Funeral Home
of Sealy was in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Ernest L. Boehme 876-738 for the
post of Constable Precinct #2,
Precinct »1 Commissioner James
Gra wunder defeated Robbie Barnett
937-708 for that post
Six of the 8 Constitutional Amend-
ments passed in Austin County. The
losing propositions were No. 6
(mutual insurance contracts) and
No. 8 (per diem expenses for Texas
Legislators). The last one loot by 4-1.
Unopposed Austin County officials
and their vote totals were District
Attorney Charles Houston 4232;
County Attorney Charley Smith
4212; Sheriff T. A. Maddox 4536; Tax
Assessor-Collector Eddie Richter
4532 and Precinct *4 Constable
Sheila Clay 1022.
In statewide contests. John Thom-
as Henderson outpolled Mack Wal-
lace in Austin County for the post of
Railroad Commissioner; John L.
Hill got 3443 Austin County votes to
3001 for John L. Bates for Chief
Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Paul
C. Murphy outpolled Warren Han-
cock in Austin County 3283-2820 for
Associate Justice, 14th District Co-
urt of Appeals.
Some 6,902 Austin County voters
went to the pods Tuesday, a tremen-
dous turnout of the 9,658 registered
voters in the county.
(Election Chart on Page 3)
Cheese
Distribution
Change
The cheese and other USDA
surplus goods will be distributed at
all four Austin County sites on the
same day in November. On Monday.
November 19, the commodities will
be distributed at Bellville. Industry,
Sealy and Wallis at the regularly
scheduled times and locations.
Distrubition will be at Industry's
United Methodist Church from 9 to
11 am.
If you have any questions contact
the CCA office in Bellville at
865-2191.
Peschel
Funeral
Services
Funeral Services for William C.
Pescbel of Nelsonville were held at
the St John Lutheran Church in
Bellville at 2 p.m. Saturday, Novem-
ber 3,1984 with Rev. William Rotter
officiating.
Interment was in the Star Hill
Cemetery.
Mr. Peschel passed away at his
residence November 1. He was 86
years of age.
Bom at Star Hill November 14,
1897, he was the son of August and
l^na Peschel. He attended Star Hill
School and married Emilie Hege-
meyer December 18, 1919 at Star
HUI.
Surviving are his wife, Emilie
Peschel of Nelsonville; daughters
and sons-in-law. Leona and Alvin
Flentge of Nelsonville, Cinata and
Alfred Slacik of Nelsonville. Cardin-
al and Owen Pfeffer of Eagle Lake.
Lenora and Harry Zander of Bellvil-
le and Verdine and Jodie Shunka of
Houston; sons and daughters-in-law.
Wilroy and Peggy Peschel of Oak
Hill and Lao Daniel and Edyth
Peschel of Victoria; one sister, Mrs.
MUda Helwig of Bellville; two
brothers, Arthur Peschel a Industry
and George Peschel of Bellville. 27
grandchildren, 34 great • grandchil-
dren and 4 great - great • grand-
children.
Preceding him in death were his
parents, >, tour sisters and four
brothers. •
Pallbeaters were grandsons. AL
vmlee Flentge, Leo D. Peschel Jr.,
Larry Slacik. William Peschel, Troy
Shunka. Gary Zander and Larry
Pfeffer
The Pete Etlinger Funeral Home of
Bellville was in charge of luneral
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