The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1952 Page: 1 of 8
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La Grange, Fayette County, Tejcas, Thursday, May I 5, I 952
Volume 73
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1952 SENIORS AT LA GRANGE HIGH SCHOOL
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Delores Baca, Clinton
taper faet-
of
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Meyenberg
Auto,
Western
La Grange’s Jaj^cpe
on ranching while BILL in turn
La Grange Royalty
Tuesday, tonla Rl.
Services were held
imarest
vehicle inspection stations
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tor Co.,
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3: Brasher
Flatonia,
will be
average of
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Carmine
The pastor, Rev. C. P. Owen.
vehicles, 611 have been Inspect-
A Presbyterian Church?”
dr an average of 98 per month.
Meeting time is 8 PM.
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>range
Legion and Jaycees. The VFW
post will also have a nominee.
After the queen is selected, the
Sacred Heart PT A
Elects New Officers
lin Huelsebusch, Edward Lidiak,
Jimmie Mlchalk, Betty Jo Sabr-
Tanecka and Weldon Tiedt.
Bottom row, I left to right:
partment of Public Safety.
The stations are as follows:
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K-Z Shop, Bon Ton Cafe, Vogt
4 Co., Melners Motors, Janssen
Bros., Max’s Cleaners, Albers
Hatchery, Zapp’s Cleaners, Lin-
cke Floor Covering, La Grange
Recreational Club, The Journal,
Comer Drug, and Frank’s Place.
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gentleman variety by the names
of BUTCH and RICKIE ... if
your mail kinda gets chunked
into the wrong box for a while
you’ll know the reason why . . .
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Marriage Licenses
Billie Mitchel Robbins i
Miss Barbara Ruth Allison.
was the church’s first pastor.
Only one charter member is still
“The Newspaper With A Purpose — Since 1880”
ODHS WILL MEET MAY 21
The La Grange
hold a regular meeting
May 21 — ODHS meeting at Wednesday, May 21.
8PM. r ”
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MRS. KRENEK DIES
Mrs. Ida Krenek, 76, of Fay-
etteville R3 passed away at her
home Sunday. Last rites were
for heid Tuesday at 10 AM at the
Knesek Chapel in Fayetteville,
Maifest which will be held Fri-
day and Saturday of this week.
Participating in the junior
coronation Friday night will be
Brenda Mae Horak and Ken-
neth Horok and in the senior
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URDAY
Oth
ie Deep
icher and
re here vi-
jc Melcher
Lee Haus-
er is on a
Antonio.
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age, Emil Sury, ' and
Chevrolet Co.
CatW^
rich Chevrolet Co and Texas
Garage.
ElUnger, 2: Kubena’s
Events Calendar
May 14 — Jaycee meeting at
8 PM.
May 15 — Opening baseball ’John Harder, now deceased,
game at Fair Park, La Grange
vs. Luling, 8 PM.
May 15 — VFW meeting at
8 PM.
May 16 — La Grange High
School band concert at gym, 8
PM.
May 18 — Dedication of swim-
ming pool at state 2—
League camp, 2 PM.
, May 20 — Lions club meeting
and luncheon, 12:05 PM.
May 20 — Rebekahs meeting
at 8 PM.
Swim Pool Sunday
Several hundred people are expected here Sunday when the
new swimming pool at the state Walter League camp south of
La Grange will be dedicated.
There will be a morning service at the camp starting at
10:30 o’clock, with the Rev. M. L. Koenneke of Austin delivering
the sermon.
Barbecue dinner will be served at the camp, beginning at 12
o’clock noon. Some tickets will
be available on the grounds. I
The dedication of the pool
will take place at 2 PM. The Rev.
A. N. Schwartz of Pasadena, |
Texas, will bring the dedicatory
message.
The pool is 25-feet wide and
’ . The depth
elk, Frances Vacula, Margaret ranges from three feet, to five
Mr. Stoever was being taken
by ambulance to a Houston hos-
pital, when his condition be-
came worse enroute and he was
taken to the Columbus hospital,
a short time
‘Silver Harvest’
Days Will Begin
Wednesday, 28th
La Grange’s first ’’Silver Har-
vest Day” will be staged on the
court house square here Wed-
nesday, May 28, at 3 PM.
There’ll be a program — and
someone will always be a “fin-
ancial benefactor” — every
Wednesday afternoon from then
on. The Wednesday programs -
will be rotated between the co-
operating merchants, each ser-
ving four times.
The following 40
ped with spring board, two lad-
ders, submarine light, and tile
swim lanes; also, it Is equipped
with two 60-inch diameter ver-
tical pressure filters and of such
capacity that the entire pool
may be filtered in eight hours
with a normal filter rate.
Abemathy-McNeme Co.
Houston were the contractor .
The contract cost wa, $13,860. following«>
and business firms are cooperat-
It is not yet known whether jng in the Silver Harvest Day
or not the pool will be open on
certain days to the public — the glad to give you details in
commencement exercises
lick of "work done wlth^iil that Field Monday 1... row, left to rlght; Nei. Virginia Brandt. Aline Brandt,
Top row, left to right, are: da Mae Herbrich, Bernice Hent- Delores Baca, Clinton 1------
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main to be inspected before the
Sept. 6 deadline arrives, it was
announced Monday by Jack W.
Ingram, inspector for* the mo-
tor vehicle inspection division,
Texas Department of F .. . ,, ~ - — , ...
heard Safety. La Grange Motor Co., Melners half-sister, Mrs.’ Walter Kuehn 1899.
Mr. Ingram reported that of Motor Co., Petzold Service Sta- of Weimar; and four brothers,
the 9,139 licensed motor vehl- tlon 4 Garage, Renck Motors, pauj of Schulenburg, Willie of
cles in the county, only 3,723 Schulze Garage, Wamken Parts Houston, Hans of Swiss Alp and
had been inspected through Sa- 4 Service, Vogt 4 Co., Inc., and ptUrt stoCvSP'of San Antonio,
turday. That means that 5,416 Zvesper Auto Service. • ,
are still to be Inspected prior to Schulenburg, 5: Brasher Mo- Honored At
Sept. 6. tor Co., Holland 4 Heinrich, rMlOr’ ,
Here is a 1
of inspection figures:
May nearly half gone . . gra-
duation just ahead for those still
in the bracket . . June just a-
round the corner ready to con-
tribute its traditional signifi-
cance to make every , bride of the
month a June Bride when we’ve •
never heard of the name of any
other month being tacked onto
a bride just because she got
married during the 30-odd days
of its existence . . . baseball
season getting into nigh gear
locally but with a little off-key
note as we had to bring home
the slightly smaller end of a
3-2 score but who’s worried
with the rest of the season a-
head of us . . . spring house-
cleaning in full swing with furni-
ture etc scattered all over the
place . . . lotsa mothers’ hearts
gladdened last Sunday by the
shower of affection from kids
from far and wide but probably
relieved a little when it was all
over because they “couldn’t get
a 1.^.. — .....---------------
fiddle-faddle" . . . SMILES AN- May 26.
DERS livin’ up to his nickname .
again after finally overcoming
the habit of driving up to the VFW’s Sixth Annual
Queen Coronation July 3
The sixth annual queen’s coronation and pageant of the Fay- ‘
ette Memorial post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be held Thurs-
day night, July 3, on Leopard Field. 1
The queen this year will be selected from a field of six can-
didates i ____
ticians Club, Fire Department, Chamber of Commerce, American
of the umpires.
Mgr. Frank Kana hap not yet
announced his mound choice,
but it’s expected to be either
Gene Herzik or Bennie Hein- QQeg -po Maifest
rich, who dropped a heartbreak-
Bills ln8 3-2 thriller to Yoakum Sun-
Schulenburg, 5: Brasher Mo- pwtorg Honored At
wr Co., Holland 4 Heinrich,
further breakdown Janacek Auto Service, Schulen- Conference Monday
Ministers of
o__ r will mond Steverson of Fayetteville
La Grange will send four re-, pjay an intra-squad football on R2, and Artis Walker of---
a a» — — x. — xLa tswmmV* i j a ■ •
May 20 at 8 PM.
The tilt willend spring train-
ing, and will give fans an idea
of the team they may expect
next fall.
Admission will be 50c
adults and 25c for children.
programs, each of whom will be
‘ i case
Service ward executive committee has not yet you're not yet familiar with the
announced its rules. The pool set-up:
on was constructed primarily for Western Auto, Meyenberg
the use of campers at the Wai- Drug johnnie’s Feed Store, Ed’s
ther Lekgue camp during the Household, MAM Co., Harvey's
Food Store, Fairmont, Lukas
Bakery, Pastime Club, Brasher
Motor, La Grange Motor, La
Grange Feed 4 Farm Supply,
Bargain Cental Arlt’s Safe, La
Grange Produce, Patzold’s, Ada-
mdltfs, Hermes Drug, Cash 4
Carry Grocery, Von Rosenberg
Co., Rosenberg 4 Moore, Lauter-
stein’s, Okln’s, Dqy’s. Perry
of which’are to be given later. Walter Jerrels of Sealy R3, Leo- the hospital at Colymbus follow- Bros., W. E. Schulze, Ritter’s,
Gerhard Wesseli Sr.
Interred Friday . 1
Funeral was held Friday, May
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Blume, La member, Mrs. Frank Kana,
Walther Grange, May IL a
14 ozs., named Theresa Gail.
anniversary of the organization Edward Lidiak.
of the congregation, on Sunday,
ED ARLT is one of those un- May 18.
Morning services are schedul-
ed for 10 AM, with the Rev.
F. Bracher of Fredericksburg, a
former pastor of the congraga- jast meeting of the school year
tlon’ delivering the service in held Tuesday afternoon, May 13,
.^forever talking English, At noon a chicken bar- elected new officers for the com-
They are Mrs. Alvin Weikel,
NO AUCTION SALE
HERE THIS FRIDAY
Because of the passing of Wal-
ter E. Stoever, there'will be no
auction sale at the Ea Grange
Livestock Auction Co. this Fri-
day, May 16.
Regular sales will be resumed
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Weimar Swim Pool
Opens On May 21
two runners-up will be declared t Weimar s municipal swim-
princesses to the queen. Other ■ ming pool will open for the new
the coronation ceremony.
Brief pre-game ceremonies Mrs- J- E- Morgan, who so
the -pUy ^y
direct this year’s presentation.
b. h.. .pp^. ■ *nd 71’
mately 4,000 vehicles, 1,874 have Flatonia, 3. Brasher Motor ' d Counties held
>..en .w^ted. 2.126 or .n .ver- Co., Fl.ropl. Motor Co., .nd W. " »«
age of 532 per month remain W. Motor Co. $ on
to be in.pected before Sept. 6. Fayetteville. 3: Conte. Car- Gr•n,e■
Flatonia area has approxi- E»ll Surv. and Vavra Monday of this week. ---
mately 1,000 vehicles, 236 have
been inspected, 764 remain to be
about 200 per
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Here are the members of the Doris Petrusek, Pauline Pechal,
1952 senior class at La Grange Rose Janda, Dolores Witt, Fran-
High School, and who are can- cis Andrews, Bennie Drab,
didates for graduation at the Elaine Spacek, Leatrice Pietsch, sula, Betty Ann Stoll, Lyndell
on Helen Rauch and Joseph Tanec- *" J *
night, ka.
vavr. Pre.byterian. Set
r.'s’: City Garage^un- and Mrs. o. Installation Rites
a r-. Installation services
. 2- Kubena’s Garage Lexington who are returning to held at the 11 AM service Sun-
Schulenburg area has approxi- ElUnger, z. nuoena s juarage J... ea# ika Viict 1 rxrt ft Y»
mately 3,200 vehicles, 902 have 4 Service Station, and Prihoda
been inspected, 2,298 remain to Garage.
in attendance be inspected or an average of Round Top, 1: Service Gar-
" age. '-Wu/. Z
5^1^"^“ Mrs. AMn WeiKel, Well over on^B of Fay-
21™ wia theR^Hy°Bro”oHe J^Sd^” Mr? A^Dart the
of Phillipsburg and Rev. Leo secretary; and Mrs. Jerry
Simon of Thorndale, both form- Kulhanek, treasurer,
er pastors, delivering the Ger- Final plans for t he picnic at
man and English services re- Bastrop next Tuesday, May 20,
were made and the annual re-
f was 1------
same house when he wanted to
go home even after he had
moved to another home . . . sez
it makes ya feel plum silly driv-
ing up to another man’s house,
turning off the ignition, and
then suddenly realize that ya
ain’t home . . . ALVIN WEIKEL
and GEORGE LAUTERSTEIN,
one a cafe man and the other a
dry goods specialist, regular do-
mino opponents . . . with such rvy-n/Muc
a wide difference in occupations JAYCEE DEMONO
they find it hard to find any- w rYDE’ME’P IQ
thing in common to talk about HUME UFtPItK
so they don’t talk . . . just play THURSDAY NIGHT
domino . . • BIT J. HRUSKA vi-
sited BHJ. HRUSKA for a few La Grange’s Ja^cpe Demons royal court,
days, ate a lot-nf BILL’S food, open their 195? basebail. Forty high school and junior
gave BILL 6 lot of fine points season here Thursday night, colleges in the area are I
on ranchtng while BILL in turn May 15 at 8 PM, against the Lui- asked to send representatives to will serve as P°™
gave BILL some pointers on lay- ing Oilers.
ing a water main and when BILL nre-game ceremonies
left BILL told BILL to come a- H s
gain and BILL told BILL he
would and that BILL should
come to see BILL too and so
BILL told BILL so long and
BILL told BILL be seein’ you
and ... aw heck, there’s a “Jr.”
and a “Sr.” that was supposed
to be tacked onto them £----
but now we’ve done lost track
of which one to tack what to , ,
. . . les and mary blume, Carmine Churcn 8
brand new papa and mama . . . A
respectively that is . . . first 50th Anniversary
girl .... other two being of the Is Sunday, May 18th
The Martin Luther Church of coronation Saturday night, Miss
Carmine will observe the 50th Frances Vacula and her duke,
At Fayetteville
The second annual Knights of
celebration will be
Fayetteville Sunday,
“ ’ or pork barbecue
will be served starting at 4 PM.
The Fayetteville High School
band will play a concert start-
ing at 4 o’clock, and Joe Cer-
venka’s Orchestra will play for
the dance at night.
The public is Invited.
living. He is Otto Eichler of society MEETS
Hempstead. The Sacred Heart Altar Socl- inspected or
ety met in regular session on month.
Monday. May 5. when one >£v v’e^.’^™ * ^n. IMtaS ebureh
g,r1’61b' ™sn:^7n 'pa top. 1; G.r.
was noted. 575, u r.™ine ^Rutersvflle 1’ Herm Tietjen Rourchot, a set of theological Ed Morgan and Charlie Jung-
Last Wednesday morning, the Fayetteville and 9®rmm era , Mrg Rourchot a michel as deacons.
ODHS wiU members attended Communion areas,-have :approximately L00° 4 , serving tray, in remembrance of The pastor Rev. C- P- Owm.
next in a body, it being the birthday vehicles, 611 have been inspect- Pagtoral wU1 haVe as his subject. “Why
anniversary of the pastor, Rev ed, 389 remain o beXk ence ' A Presbyterian Church?”
S A Zientek. or an avera8« of 98 per month. (See WTATivnB, fbjbi
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schel Amanda Buscha, Frank- chin, Jerry Prllop, Johnny Psen- 60-feet in length.
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Vasek, Marilyn Weishuhu and feeti an<j t0 njne feet. It is equlp-
Lawrence Kallus.
Not pictured are Hazel Vaughn
and Edmund Faldyn.
Houston this week and the Rev.
and Mrs. Daniele Pourchot of
first day at the First Presbyterian
Intra-Squad Grid
Tilt Tuesday Eve
La Grange’s Leopards
presentatives to the Brenham Leopard Field
There will also be Red Cro ts
swimming classes, more <
• An ad in this issue gives more nard Joe Malota of Welcome, ing. a lingering illness,
details.
pastors, delivering the Ger-
and English services re-
wouid be knocking on our door and genior choirs and the Wai- port of the secretary
*----A-- - «
every week.
There’s bound to be a better
way of making a living.
Just want to take time out
to extend congratulations and
the best of wishes to those who
See ’Round Town, back page
ther; two sisters,
He married the former Miss
Public tor Co., Fayette County Motors, jOyce Stoever of New York; a Ida Poehler at Cuero on Nov. 22,
He was a retired farmer.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Gerhard Wessels Sr. of West
Point; four daughters, Mrs. Gus
Tramp and Mrs. Walter Camell
of Smithville and Mrs. James
Sheapard and Mrs. Louis Lesko-
vian of Houston; four sons, Al-
bert and Herman of West Point,
Edward of La Grange and Alex
Schroeder of Austin; eight
grandchildren; and eight great-
grandchildren.
V „ Walter E. Stoever,
entrant, will .t.0 serve >n the Wedn^MayJL These, h.^ Well Known Cattle
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being swimming hours. H. L. Griffin g[ca{ examinations
Blas Campos of Sealy, Grant known La Grange businessman,
10 More Called
For Draft Test
Tuesday, May 27
Local Selective
No. 44 will forward 10 regist-
rants for reexamination
Tuesday, May 27.
This is in addition to the re- summer season.*
gular call for 60 who will leave
the same day.
Those I
fall-time lifeguard during all determination predndnettan phy- Man, Die* Monday
rimming hours. H. L. Griffin slcal examinatlon8 are: ’ ‘
ill serve as pool manager. Walter E. Stoever, 49, well
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details Jacob Coats Jr. of Bellville R2, passed away Monday morning in
predictable kind of guys . . .
now that he’s in the earth mov-
ing business, digging tanks,
clearing land, etc., he’s always
talking about gentleman cows
that sleep . . . J------ ’’
about bulldozers.
And just how far can a fel-
ler go in this kind of literature
without making a new para-
graph?
It’s a good thing that there’s
no penalty to violating the laws
of grammar . . . MISTER JIM spe<?tively. The Carmine Junior
five minutes after press time d(?ck Cholr wiU also render selec-
tions throughout the day. Rev. Fete Sunday
A. T/ Kluge present pastor of
the congregation will be in
charge of the services.
A lunch hour will follow the Columbus
afternoon services at the school held at
gym. May 18-
The Martin Luther Church of
Carmine was organized by the
Rev. F. Bracher on May 19,
1902, with 17 charter members.
Johnnie Frank Pavllcek of Sealy
Rl, Herman Bratcher of Colum-
bus, Rufus Frank Dolezal of
Weimar R3, Erwin Edwin Rip-
per of Schulenburg R3, Will-
Fia_ He passed away
later.
Mr. Stoever was bom at Swiss
Alp on Feb. 16, 1903, the son of
Mrs. Anna Stoever and the late X
John Stoever. He was united in 9 "for'Gerhard Wessels Sr., 82,
marriage with Miss Minnie who dJed at Wegt pojnt Wed-
Zapalac on Feb. 13, 1934. nesday, May 7, after an illness
The deceased had been a resi- °ver a year.
with Rev. Wm. Feilei official- dent of La Grange for about 24 Services were held in the
ing and Koenig Funeral Home years. He was co-founder and Prairie Valley Lutheran Church
and directing. Burial was in the now owner of the La Grange at 2 PM with Rev.TI. T. Flach-
Krebs Cemetery. Livestock Auction Co., and co- meier officiating and Koenig
owner of Fayette County Mo- Funeral Home directing. Inter-
Sacred Hea^ p-¥a.T„ the 28 In.pection Station, Face Jib: '?* Pr,lrte
Over Half Cars Still To Be Checked
WVI IIUII VUI U wain IV WV VIIVUIWU Wednesday at 10 AM at the 1870. His parents were the late
There are 28 official motor chapel of Koenig Funeral Home, Henry and Lucy Bruner Wes-
1 Z i in with Rev. H. T. Flachmeler of- seis. He came to this country
Fayette, The Journal was ad- ficiatlng. Interment was In the on Oct. 21, 1886, and has been
vised Monday by the Texas De- New city Cemetery. a resident of the county for 62
partment of Public Safety. He leaves his widow, his mo- years and of the West Point
The stations are as follows: ther; two sisters, Mrs. Emil vicinity for 51 years.
La Grange, 10: Brasher Mo- Kleiber of La Grange and Miss
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