The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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will be closed next Monday all
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CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. 1
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■ustomers
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lence and
lie have
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We want
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12 oz., named Angie Marie.
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Eon
La Grange, Feb. 21, a 1
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the potato
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dent; D. H. Koopmann, secre-
tary; and Amos Pavlik, treasu-
THIS WEEK’S MYSTERY FARM PICTURE
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Your Child’s Education Not Costly
Your child’s education in the
Texas public schools costs less
Alois Monroe Freis,
Ledbetter; Elroy
Hanslik, Rt. 3
a fairly
ovel item
ears back
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Plunkett’s Show
Will Play Here
Friday, Saturday
Plunkett’s big stage show—
which wintered at the fair
grounds here—will open for the
new 1953 season on the Ameri-
can Legion hall grounds Friday
and Saturday nights, Feb. 27
and 28.
Doors open at 7 PM, and the
year are the latest available. fo-
tal public school costs for that
year were $318,963,078, accord-
The judging will begin at
AM on 1..—- -------
will be judged by Ike Dahlberg,
professor of animal husbandry
at Texas A&M College. Mr. Dahl-
berg has judged most of the pre-
vious junior livestock shows and
has always done an <-----------
job.
>1.45 by seven, the hours in a
school day, gives an individual
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Jore Plans Made
No
For Jr. Stock Show
calves which have been on feed
since Oct. 1. The beef division of
the show is very practical since
no milk fed calves are shown— jjrst performance is at 8 PM.
the feeding program being Along with a three.act play
strictly dry-lot feeding. Some- each ni ht the Plunkett’s fea-
where in the neighborhood of ture among other things: Capt.
Clarence LeeRoy Hoehne, Rt. 1
- ‘ Charles
Hoehne, Rt. 1 La Grange;
(Bee DRAFT, Baek Page)
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JAYCEES TO MEET
The La Grange Jaycees’ regu-
lar monthly meeting will be held
Monday night, March 2, at the
city hall. All members are re-
quested to attend, as several im-
portant business items are on
the program.
Fayetteville; Jerry John Faldyn,
Rt. 3 U Grange; Joe Jimmie
Faldyn, Jr„ Rt. 3 La Grange;
Ludwig Fiedler, Rt. 1 Flatonia;
, Star Rt.,
’ Ferdinand
Schulenburg;
one teen-age aggregation will be dependance Day.
fielded this spring, -further de-
SPJST LODGE
WILL MOVE
TO TEMPLE
The Slavonic Benevolent
der of the State of Texas (SPJ-
ST) and which now has its
been-with-the Texas CO. for 'the • of the annual.show —
Bill Shaw of Franklin, ■ candidates from Plum will re-
Texas, outstanding
in charge.
fifth time in
some
Saturday morning.
Using the same means of en-
trance as at the last burglary,
which was the night of Jan. 16,
the culprits took only narcotics
this time. The pane in the front
door was broken and the night
latch tripped to gain entrance.
Hostyn at 9:30 AM | At the Jan. 16 burglary sev-
eraj watches and valuable pa-
| pers wenp taken in addition to
the nanjQticsi. However,
time it seems that “dope” was
all that was wanted.
being
Some-
ot re amuu „„„....... «--•
100 hogs will be exhibited in the seal act, one of the home offices at Fayetteville,
breeding and fat classes. These two tented organizations carry- will move to Temple in the near
animals are in top condition and . a seal act. the piunkett j future.
will be representative • of the Peaches featuring singing and According to an item in the i him at P. O. Box 267, La Grange,
high quality hogs produced in danclng’acts; Kennedy Swain, Temple Daily
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boy, 8 ! tails of which will be announc-
es. 8 oz., named George Edward.1 ed as soon as completed.
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According to an item
Telegram, the
spjst has contracted for the Paul J. Barnec
purchase of a, six-story building
there —•' known as the Profes-
sional building — for $150,000.
Frank Matush, Temple SPJS-
T leader, reported that some 10
or 12 employees and their fami-
lies would be transferred from
the present headquarters
Fayetteville,
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Neese Pharmacy
At Carmjne Is
Burglarized Again
The NeeSe Pharmacy in Car--
mine was burglarized—for the South Madison St., where he is
t .. ln ---------
time last Friday night or}hopes to find a
tion, however.
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VFW MEETING
SET FRIDAY
A meeting of the Fayette Me-
morial Post VFW has been set
for Friday night at 7>:30 PM in
the VFW Hall.
AU members are urged to at-
tend this very important tneet-
i. annthpr of a series of "mystery farm” pictures being reproduced in The JoumaLCan
s'.rx*««**-"• * is-s*
photo, will be presentea an original mounted photograph free of charge. ----- Lawrence
George Prilop employee of Farmers Lumber Co. here, was the first correetguesserofthe last U[Grange, La £
mysteS farwpSure ?t wa, the Paul Kubal. Hatchery 4 Poultry F.™ near Sdtutenburg. Elroy
Zimmermann ol Albers Hatchery was the second person to correctly identl y P
celebration wiU be made.
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Two LHS Musicians
Participate In
Lone Star Band Meet
Two La Grange High School
band students were distinctly
honored Feb. 11-13, when they
were chosen as members of the
Lpne Star band at the annual
concert of the Texas Music
Educators Association held at
Galveston.
They were Marjorie Morris,
who plays the bass clarinet, and
Weldon Koenig who plays
baritone saxophone.
These two students competed
with others from Regions 6
through 10, and with others
from every classification of
schools. Four bass clarinet play-
ers were selected from 10 en-
tries, Miss Morris being one;
and Koenig was one of the two
, baritone sax players selected
from five entries.
The concerts — looked for-
ward to by all Texas high school, Qirn(jt.
musicians »— was cliniced by!
Milburn E. Carey of the Uni-i
verslty of Oklahoma; and Mark
H. Hindsley of the University
of Illinois, both music profes-
sors.
Ground hog musta been right
after all. Weather’s been soupy
ever since he crawled back inta
his hole Feb. 2, and farmers
. . . after three long years . . .
wantin this stuff ta quit so as
to land in shape for com and
"tater" planting.
News this week? As per
usual . . . nothin to brag about,
excepting —
Next week, March 1 through
7, is Public School Week in Tex-
as, proclaimed so by our gover-
nor, Allan Shivers. And La
Grange is taking full cognizance
of it. Lotsa people do not rea-
lize what the schools of Texas
mean to them . . . it’s one of
the state’s biggest businesses.
Fer instance, a story else-
where in this paper states that
it costs only 21c per hour to
educate a child in Texas. That’s
less than a baby sitter gets!
Now take La Grange, for in-
stance, though: Fer the last
school year, 1951-1952, the to-
tal expenditure was $228,018.
This included transportation by
buses, instructors’ salaries, re-
tirement of bonds and interest :
on borrowed money. Then, take
737 white students and 323 co-
lored, which makes a total of I
1060 students. Next, divide this
into the expenditure, and that
figures to a little over $214 per
student per term. Now, divide
this $214 by 180 (the average
school days per year) that ac-
, counts for $1.13 per day. Final-
ly, divide this by seven, the
nqmber of hours a pupil spends
in school, and ya’ll find this af-
gregates just a little over 16c
per hour! That’s a nickel an
hour less that the state average
. . . despite the fact that $31,096
was spent last term for trans-
porting an average of 789 stu-
dents to and from school per
day by 14 busses ... and they
traveled an average of 1,024.6
miles per day. ,
Yes, ladies and gentlemen:
this school business is big busi-
ness, so let’s take cognizance of
these Texas Public School Week
days, and make as many of em
as we can:
Monday, March 21: luncheon
in home economics department
for city officials and school
board at noon. At 8 PM, the
faculty will sponsor a dinner for
the presidents and secretaries of
La Grange civic organizations.
Tuesday, March 3, Lions Club
luncheon at the Hermes cafe-
teria at noon.
Tuesday night, too, “back to
school” night. Parents are in-
■ 'z,;
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Sheriff Jim Flournoy is con-
j the investigation.
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59 Will Leave
For Induction
On March 3rd
Names and honle addresses of
the 59 selectees ordered by Lo-
cal Boarl No. 44, La Grange to
report on March, 3 for forward-
ing for their induction into the
Armed Forces follow alphabe-
tically by counties:
Austin: Roy Everett Brast,
Rt. 1 Bellville; Clarence Alvin
Dittert, Rt. 2 Cat Spring; Ro-
l bert Lee Foyt, Rt. 1 Wallis;
the youngest baby-titters, Ing to figures compiled by the
Charles H. Tennyson, executive Texas Education Agency. Ave-
rags daily attendance was 1,-
213,000. Dividing that figure in-
to the total cost shows
$262 was spent that year
each child.
Dividing $262 by 180,
number of school days, gives a
cost per day of $1.45. Dividing
Texas Co. Will
Reopen Its Lena
Clay Plant Soon
The Lena clay plant of the
Texas Co., located between West
Point and Muldoon, will reopen
on or about April 1.
This information was revealed
this week when E. O. Dunaway
of Houston, department agent
in the refining department
the Texas Co., was in
Grange Monday.
E. T. Rohwer will
plant’s new superintendent. Mr.
and Mrs. Rphwer, who now re-
side at Huntsville, plan to make
La Grange their horhe. He is a
native of Iowa, but has resided
in Texas since 1930 and T
kids at 7:30 PM. Elementary
school teachers will explain the
modern teaching methods now
used, and the high school will
operate on a 10-minute sche-
dule, with each teacher explain-
ing the purposes and objectives
of the courses being taught.
Tuesday night at 8:40 PM, all
guests will meet in the gym for
a short program and refresh-
ments. The class with the high-
est percentage of parents pre-
sent in both the elementary and
high school departments will
get a free trip to either San
Antonio or Austin this spring!
Wednesday, March 4: Fayette
County Junior Livestock Show.
March 5: Faculty and the
school board will sponsor a din-
ner in the Hermes cafeteria, ho-
noring all former trustees of |
the La Grange district, as well
as former trustees of all an-
nexed districts.
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events Calendar
Feb. 26 — La Grange Garden
Club meets at home of Mrs. W.
E Meyer at Rutersville at 3 PM.
Feb. 27 — VFW regular
meeting at 7:30 PM.
Feb. 27 — La Grange Farm
Bureau local, meeting at 8 PM.
March 2 — La Grange Jay-
cees meeting at fire station,
7:30 PM.
March 3 — Lions Club meet-
ing and luncheon, in connection
with Public School Week in
Texas, at Hermes
12:05 PM.
March 5 — Firemen’s meet-
ing at 7:30 PM*
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La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday February 26, 1 953
Polio Fund ‘Over The T(jp*
Count Is Not
Complete, But
Quota Reached
Fayette County is “over the
top” in its drive for funds for
the March of Dimes — that
fund that supports the National
Foundation for Infantile Para-
lysis.
Amos Pavlik, treasurer for the
Fayette chapter, reported at
noon Wednesday that the total
(although unofficial and incom-
plete) was $10,147.49 at that
t^me.
Here are the figures by areas:
La Grange area $4,021.97 (La
Grange city $2,981.33); Schu-
lenburg area $4,100; Round
Top, Carmine and Fayetteville
area, $1,153.89; and Flatonia
area, $871.63.
It is believed that the total
will be near $12,000 when are
reports are complete.
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Von Rosenberg
Sells Grocery
To Von Minden
The Von Rosenberg Co., Inc.,
has sold its grocery department
to Clinton von Minden, effective
Thursday, Feb. 26.
The store will be closed
Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26
and 27, for inventory purposes,
but will be open for "business as
in* Inkial’‘plUfo”r‘ thefufc 4 usual” on Saturday ,
B -- - - Mr. Von Minden has been as-
sociated with grocerlei for many
i years—prior to World War II
and thereafter. Of recent years,
he was with the A&P iFood
Store here in La Grange.
The Von Rosenberg Co. will
devote its entire efforts in
furnish-
depart-
ments. Further announcements
as to the formal opening
Von’s Food Store will be
nounced through the press.
Further details on the sales
transaction may be found else-
where in this issue.
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House Is Badly
Damaged By Fire
Saturday At Noon
Fire did right at $1,000 dam-
age at the Girndt home, diagon-
ally across from the fire station
here, at about 12:15 Saturday
afternoon.
Members of the family—Leon,
| Herbert and Miss Lillian
—were just getting ready
; to eat their noon meal when
they smelled smoke and then
saw fire coming through
ceiling over their heads.
City employees, “checking” in
from their morning’s work, saw
the fire on the roof, and they,
1 too, sounded the alarm.
Firemen responded quickly tp
the call and extinguished the
blaze, but a considerable portion
of the rootf, inside ceiling and
i wall paper burned before they
could get to the scene.
The ninth annual Fayette
County Junior Livestock Show
promises to be bigger and bet-
ter than ever before. FFA and
4H club members -from La
Grange, Fayetteville, Round
Top, Carmine, Ellinger, Plum
and Warda are spending many
busy hours this week fitting and
grooming their exhibits for the
Show.
The show will be held at the
Fayette County Fair grounds
Tuesday and Wednesday, March
3 and 4.
These boys will exhibit
proximately 32 head of
7 lbs. 14 oz., named Fred Henry
Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ermis of
La Grange, Feb. 21, a girl, 6 lbs;
vited to attend school with their
FRIEMEL NAMED
FAYETTE FAIR
ASSN. SECRETARY
Arthur Friemel is the new sec-
retaYy of the Fayette County
Fair Association.
The board of directors of the
association met last Wednesday
night, at which time Mr. Frie-
mel was named to the position.
All correspondence pertaining
to the Fayette County Fair As-
sociation should be addressed to
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Returns To City
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Barnec
have returned to La Grange to
make their future home.
Residents of Taylor for
past nine months, they decided
La Grange was still the place
for them. Mr. Barnec, in the
watch and clock repair business
and who also operated a liquor
store while here before, will re-
sume the watch and clock re-
pair business.
The Bamecs are resding in
the Alfred Brunner home at 430
f .. 1
business. He
downtown loca-
lis; Alvin ftinze, Rt. 2 Seaiy;
Otto Karl Krause, Jr., Rt. Il
Bellville; Ernest Ray, Rt. 2
New Ulm; Emil Alvin Reznlcek,
Sealy; Melvin Schaefer, Rt. 1
' Bellville.
Colorado: George Allison, Jr.,
I Rt. 2 Weimar; Lennil Earl E-
vans, Columbus; Ivory Leo
Gaines, Oakland; Henry Gonza-
les, Glidden; Glenn C. Gruetz-
jmacher, Columbus; Joe Emil
Hanak, Glidden; Johnnie Joe
Havran, Rt. 1 Alley ton; Method
(Hoffman, Jr., Nada; Johnnie
Edward Kasper; Weimar: Max
| !Mai, Alleyton; John E. Perry,
Eagle Lake; Frank Pettus, Ea-
gle Lake; Jpe Pulido, Glidden;
James Ray Ro&e, Rt. 2 Colum-
bus; Norris White, Weimar;
Ollie Watson, Jr., Garwood; Lee
Roy Wenske, Rt. 2 Columbus;
Alvin John Wick, Rt. 2 Weimar;
Willie Wicks, Rt. 2 Weimar.
Fayette: Floyd Willie Arndt,
Carmine; Wilbert Trank Ber-
ger, Rt. 1 Schulenburg; Elroy
3 Schu- than the hourly rate charged by
lenburg; Herman Crump, Rt. 1 the
secretary of the Texas State
Teachers Association, said to-
day.
"A lot of people talk abput the
high cost of education,” Tenny-
son said. "Actually, during the
1951-52 school year, the actual
cost per class-room hour for
each child was only 21 cents."
Figures for the 1951-5? school per hour cost’ <bf 21
“funniest man*in show busi-
ness;” Helen Price and her ac-
will be on exhibit at the show. ^as^est dog act;”
'10 greatest bounding
£b> when the swine iwnou. talking
horse; Sonny Noell. the acroba-
tic; Octavia Powell, musician;
and many others. I
Admission for the two-night
excellent performances which are under
I the auspices of the local Amen-
and 25c for reserved seats.
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65 Are To Be
Confirmed At
Hostyn Sunday
A class of 65—combined from
the Plum and Hostyn parishes—
will be, confirmed .next Sunday,
March 1, at Hostyn at 9:30 AM
judge the dairy animals. [by the Most Rev. Robert E. Lu-
wlll start'
Peaches, featuring singing and
to
capons, _____
fryers, lambs and dairy animals cordjon; America’s “finest and
;” the “world’s
■' j trampoline
‘Leon Pinter and his ac-
cordion; the famous
| the auspices of the local Amerl-
ed at 10 AM along with the pens (
of fryers. Bill Braddy, formerly
poultry marketing specialist
with the Texas Extension Ser-
vice, will do the judging in the
poultry department.
At 11:45 Mr. Dahlberg will
judge the lambs and at 1:30 he
will finish the judging of the fat
animals when he picks the grand
champion calf.
Doyle Moore, county agent of
Columbus, formerly associate
county agent in charge of dairy-
ing for Washington County, will
judge the dairy animals.
has^ The auction sale — big event, rey, Archbishop of San Antonio.
will start Mass at Plum next Sunday
) PM Wednesday, March will be at 7:30 AM^at which the
Rice 4, with bm onaw w * ..,i ■—— ------ --— snen.
auctioneer, | ceive Holy Communion and then duct
i go to Hostyn for the Confirma- ■
o o o------ I tion. At Hostyn there will be
I I Ir i two Masses, the first at 6:45
Little League is AM and the second at 8 am, at
Reorganized Here which the group fr«m Hostyn
„ , ,, will receive Holy Communion.
The Little League Baseball From Hostyn the Archbishop
| Association was reorganized for to ^mmannsville to con-
! the coming season, at a meeting jjrm a ciass there at eleven o’-
pitcher cl”k
young
O: basebaiters, was again named PanKS wm viwc
Knebel,' president. Others elected were Monday, March 2
The La Grange State
and the First National
Will Uv. LIVOVU
! Four Little League teams and day in observance of Texas In-
Customers are requested to
make'arrangements accordingly. Frank Freddie Foley, Rt. 1 Wal-
past 25 years. They have a son, I at 1:30
Tommy, a sophomore at p—
Institute in Houston.
Mr. Rohwer will succeed Dru-
ry M. Phillips, former superin-
tendent and now retired.
The Lena plant’s business is
fullers earth, which it mines
and ships by the car-loads. It is
not to be confused with the Mill-
in
held here Monday night.
Les Blume, veteran
and long interested in
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