The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1955 Page: 2 of 10
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EDITORIALS
THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1955
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Always a happy note to record |
someone’s gift to his fellowman. i
Such is the case this Week, as
Mrs Elvira Saxon notified us
that the A & P Store of La
Grange headed by the capable
manager, Gus Tlemann, had al-
ready made a donation of $25.
to the American Red Cross
fund. The drive for the Red
Cross will be held next month,
but this fine progressive busi-
ness has already made its con-
tribution.
The Senate Committee on
Constitutional Amendments, af-
ter a public hearing Tuesday
night last week, gave approval
to an amendment which would
permit the State of Texas to
advertise. Isn’t it amazing how
Texas has been so well-adver-
tised down through the years
without paying a red copper
cent for it. However, we will
go along with the State of Tex-
as; we think its a good idea to
advertise anything, anywhere,
and at anytime. So we heartily
congratulate this forward step
to get more people to come to
Texas and perhaps more indus-
try. Fayette County would like
to get in on this industry, es-
pecially.
Anpther thing that the Sen-
ate passed was a bill permitting
banks to close one day each
week. Now, all that the bank
directors have to -do is pass a
resolution and give notice to the
public. At least one Fayette
County banker has informed us
that he has no intention of clos-
ing the extra day; says he is
even embarrassed to close at 4
PM in the summer time.
Kenny Stork has sent out a
bulletin requesting all Fayette
County cotton producers to re-
lease all un-used acreage to the
county committee to redistri-
bute to other needed farms in
the county. - That deadline Is
March 28 and Notebook would
like to emphasize the import-
ance of notifying the County
' Committee if you do not intend
planting your cotton acreage.
Fayette County is short of cot-
ton acres, and it is very import-
ant that every allotted acre is
planted.
Many have asked us to ex-
plain the “Gathings Bill” now
before congress. The explana-
tion below is not ours, but it will
probably help make the bill
clearer.
If this recommendation is car-
ried out, it means that the 3
per cent increase will go ALL
the states.
On the basis of the best infor-
mation available this means
Texas will receive an Increase
of approximately 228,000 acres.
The method of allocation recom-
mended by the Sub-Committee
Is as follows.
A. The State ASC Committee
must first provide enough acres
to bring every farm, receiving
less than 5 acres in 1955, up to
five (5) acres or to its highest
planting over the last three
years, whichever is the smaller.
It is estimated that this will
take around 20,000 acres in Tex-
as; however, there are no defi-
nite figures available.
B. The remainder (approxi-
mately 200,000 acres in Texas)
must be allocated to the counties
on the same basis as the present
acreage was allocated to the
counties.
The County Committee must
then distribute to the farmers
within the county as follows.
(1) To those hardship cases
where the farmer received less
than 40 per cent of his 1954
allotment;
(2) The remainder, if any,
then goes to the County Reserve
to be distributed by the County
Committee under the present
general law.
We have a letter this week
from one who is an Ex-Fireman
in La Grange. He prefers that
we not use his name, but here
is his message.
Dear Journal.
In a recent issue of The Jour-
nal you published a very inter-
esting article about the La
Grange fire department. Such
items are always appreciated,
as the reader gets valuable in-
formation concerning his home
town.
And while occupying a large
—overstuffed and cushioned—
lazy chair many thoughts of the
past bounced around and about
inside of the writer's think tank.
Yes, thoughts of yester years-
several years or even scores of
years came back from the cob-
webbed comer of his cranium.
La Grange, then as now, had
its fire department. It was con-
sidered an honor to be a mem-
ber of the city firefighters or-
Lt Lange recently was a vis-
itor in the home of Mr and Mrs
new 162-h.p. “Turbo-Fire V8” delivers? (For those
who do, 180-h.p. is optional at extra cost in all V8
models.) Chevrolet also offers the two highest powered
sixes in its field.
Come in and see how the Motoramic Chevrolet is
stealing the thunder from the high-priced cars!
property was saved, due to Big
Black’s quick work.
Big Black proved himself to
be a valuable member of the La
Grange Fire Department.
Ex-Fireman
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The answer lies in complete publication of the minutes of
county commissioners’ court meetings. This is not unreasonable
local officials have just been granted four-year terms by Texas
voters, and in return the public is entitled to a more thorough
knowledge of the actions of our grass-roots government.
There is now in the legislative hopper at Austin a bill (H.B.
12) which will provide for the publication of such proceedings.
It deserves the support of every free-thinking citizen.
Up to this year, maybe there were reasons for wanting
one of the higher-priced cars. If you demanded some-
thing really special in the way of driving fun, you
simply had to pay a premium to get it
Not any more! The Motoramic Chevrolet has changed
all that Who could wish for more excitement than the
pressed their sincere thanks.
Personals
Miss Maxine Sacks of San
Marcos spent the week end with
her parents, Mr and Mrs Dennis
Sacks, and took part in the
Schulle-Etzel wedding Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Charlie Polasek
of Halstead visited with Mr and
Mrs R. J. Legler last week.
Miss Helen Weiss of Seguin
spent the week end in the horne
of her parents Rev and Mrs A.
B Weiss
A visitor in the home of Mr
and Mrs Willie Noak during the
week end was their son, Pvt
William Noak of San Antonio.
other relatives in this commu-
nity. His address is Lt John O.
Lange, San Antonio Branch Of-
fice, Army Audit Agency, Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
Community Happenings
Mr and Mrs Peters observed
their 40th wedding anniversary
on Feb. 11.
A number of relatives and
friends came to be their anni-
versary guests on Sunday af-
ternoon, Feb. 13.
A very pleasant afternoon
was enjoyed by all. Refresh-
ments were served which includ-
ed cakes, cookies, pies, sand-
wiches and coffee.
Mr and Mrs Peters were the
recipients of some very nice and
useful gifts for which they ex-
Brotherhood Week
Nationwide observance of Brotherhood Week, sponsored by
Bhe National Conference of Christians and Jews is being observe!
tthls week. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is honorary chairman
of the observance. Ben Duffy, President, Batten, Barton, Durs-
tlne and Osborne, Inc., Is general chairman.
The 1955 theme is “One Nation Under God.
Special events in more than 10,000 communities throughout
the United States will mark Brotherhood Week. Educational in-
stitutions, religious, civic organizations will participate. Pro-
grams will extend the work of the National Conference which st -
mutates year-around programs in schools and colleges, churches
and synagogues, labor-management and community organiza-
tions, and In newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radii? and
television. > .,
The purposes of Brotherhood week, according to Dr. Everett
R. Cllnchy, president of the National Conference, are to give Peo-
ple an opportunity to re-dedlcate themselves as individuals to
the ideals of respect for people and human rights. We try to
dramatize the practical things that people can do to promote an
understanding and realization of those ideals. Brotherhood Week
is essentially a campaign against the prejudices and bigotries
that disfigure and distort religious, business, social and political
relations.”
"We hope that during Brotherhood Week people will get
together with people they know, people they don’t know, and
with people they wish to know, in the informality of their homes.
By planning simple discussions about the meaning of brother-
’ hood, tod what it means In their own lives, they can contribute
to the real spirit of Brotherhood Week.’’
Four New Fayette
Students At SWTSTC
Four students from Fayette
County are among the 380 new
students enrolled for the spring
semester at Southwest Texas
State Teachers College at San
Marcos.
Total enrollment at the col-
lege has reached 1770, the sec-
ond highest figure for spring
semester enrollment in the
school’s history.
New students from Fayette
County who are attending
SWTSTC this semester are John
J. Beck and William H. Right-
mer of Flatonia, Harold For-
queran of Ellinger and Joe
Marshall Kelly of Muldoon.
® LOCAL TRADEMARKS. I<K
A.H?GUS~SPACEK
GRANGE,
Where Does Our Money Go?
Last year, a hundred and four Texas counties did not bother
to submit their budgets to the state auditor, although this is
required by law. Why? The state auditor has no power to make
them do it. So, nobody but the commissioners’ courts in those
counties knows what became of the tax monies collected.
There Is no reason to believe that the great majority -of
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Junior Livestock Show
The annual Fayette County Junior Livestock Show will be
held in La Grange on March 1 and 2; that’s next week, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
The show this year is sponsored by the Chamber of Com-
merce, Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Lions
Club and the Fayette County Fair Association. The business-
men of La Grange have set aside a half-day holiday for this
event.
Co-chairmen for the show are County Agent James Reese
and FFA Advisor C. C. Smith. Both have been working over-
time on this worthwhile project and deserve a well-earned pat-
on<he-back. Ike Dahlberg of Texas A & M College will serve as
judge and the Gulf Oil Company will provide the sound truck.
The Junior Livestock Show Is worthy of support from the
business men of La Grange, who have already done a great deal
toward aiding the show. It is also worthy of support from the
4-H and FFA boys, because it is their show. The business men
will do their part; the boys will do their part. Now, it is up to
the people of this area to visit the show to express an Interest in
this outstanding work.
Our congratulations in advance for another good Junior
Livestock Show this year.
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Your BABY CHICKS need the Mme
care, diet and sanitation if the» are to be
thrifty, grow rapidly and normally, and
become profitable producer..
Feed them lhe NEW
these local governing bodies did anything with county funds that
shouldn’t have been done; we are attacking only the principle of
the thing—the idea that the public needn’t know what the gov-
<. eminent does with its hard-earned tax dollars.
Texas commissioners’ courts handled over a billion dollars
in assessed property taxes last year; Texas counties have gross
debt of one billion 500 million doUars. We believe the people
should know exactly where this money goes, and how these debts
accumulate.
Public attendance at meetings of the commissioners’ court
is notoriously small, and even when the public attends, it does
not understand a great many of the court’s actions. So that isn t
the answer.
ROUND TOP
Mrs. Leo J as ter
Church Notice »
Bethlethem Lutheran Church
at Round Top. The Rev. A. B.
Weiss, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9 AM. Holy
Communion service at 10 AM.
Ladies Aid meeting on Wednes-
day at 2 PM.
.___ Lenten service on Wednesday
ganlzation. Our equipment con-| „
sisted ef a two-wheeled cart and,
about five hundred feet of cot- Now Stationed In Texas
of some twenty of the members,
was required to answer the call , ______________
for help. However, we did our, Qtto j^ejnze an<i SOn and with
best; sometimes saving valuable ( ...
property—and sometimes we f
could not get to the trouble in ,
time—we had plenty of trouble
getting our equipment a-rolling. ,
The La Grange Ice & Cold ‘
Storage Company was. in busi-
ness at that time, and they had
an agency for one or two beer
companies. Mr. Fritz Presun
well and favorably remembered
by us few remaining old-timers
—was the manager. The firm
had for its delivery service a
high wheeled cart or wagon,
and what we always considered
the tallest and longest horse as
its motive power. The animal
was unlike the heavies we saw
when the circus came to town,
but longer and taller. He was
known to us as “Big Black,”
which was an appropriate name.
On several occasions when we
fire boys were tugging along
with our over-weight equipment,
Louis Bollmeyer, the driver and
delivery man would come to our
rescue. We then had a ride and
Big Black soon learned what it
was to be a fire horse.
One afternoon in midsummer,
when you could see the heat
waves bounce up and down the
street—when most of the citi-
zens were enpoying the siestas
—when you could lean against a
telephone post and dream un-
disturbed—then there, without
warning, and like a crack of
thunder, we heard the ding-dong
loud and clear.
What a time for a fire. Big
Black, who was tethered to the
old hitching rack in front of the
office, awakened rather sudden-
ly, and after giving a loud
snort, snapped the hitching rein
like it was a piece of cotton
twine. Down the street he went,
as fast as his long legs could
carry him, and right at lhe fire
house he stopped. One of the
members of the department took
the reins and much valuable
The beautiful Bel Air Sport Coupe with Body by Flrher
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Duewall, L. A. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1955, newspaper, February 24, 1955; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1254769/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.