The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1964 Page: 2 of 16
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Listen to them. Take time to hear their joys, their problems.
U you fall to listen they will not feel free to discuss thhjgs with
you that should be discussed.
High school children should not go steady. “Going steady** is a
kind of “social security” to youngsters who are just getting acq-
uainted with the opposite sex. They don’t run the risk of being left
out of things if they have a date they can always depend on. After
the teenage has built up confidence in his ability to get along with the
opposite sex. however, he will find that a variety of friendships are
certainly better. Statistics show that children who do not go ^eady
ear»v have a much better chance of not getting into trouble.
Know where your children are when they are mX at home. Do not
dstrust them in everything they do. They want to feel that they can
be trusted and let them know that you do. Check on their where-
abouts occasionally. There are many parents that have the wool pull-
ed over their eyes. Sally says she is going to the show and she ends
up in some other town on a date. She says she is going to the swim-
ming pool and is actually someplace where you would not approve of.
Remember that you are parents-that you brought these children
into the world and they are your responsibility. You have to say
“No” to them many times when it would be much easier to say yes.
It is true that you have to start letting them make many of their own
decisions but you must guide them and often overrule them. It is
La Grange Journal-Thurs. Augtr* 6. 1Q64
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NOTICE--Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing,
or reputation of any person, firm, or corporation which may happen
to appear in the columns of The Journal will be corrected gladly if
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5:58 Sign on
, 6:00 News
3:05 Farm Show
8:30 Farmers Swap Shop
I 6:55 News
7x00 Bill Kruger Wake Up
Show
7:30 Overnight News Summary
World, Local, State, Weather
Sports, Feature Story
8:00 Roy Edwards Show
8:30 Community Bulletin Board
8:35 Roy Edwards Show
8;50 Local News and Hospital
Registers
9:00 Roy Edwards Siow
9:28 News Headlines
9:30 Roy Edwards Show
Sat-Heres to Vets
10:00 News
10:05 Roy Edwards Show
. J 10:28 Headline News
10:30 Community Bulletin Board
10:35 Salute to Smithville
Tues & Thurs-Bill Krueger
Show
10:45 Sat-Country Music Time
■ 11:00 News
11:05 Bill Kruger Show
; 11:30 Mon.-Pat Boone Show
Tues.-Tuest Star
Wed.-Lawrence Welk Show
Thurs.-County Agent
Fri-HD Program
Sat.-SCD Program
11:45 Sheriff’s Report
Sat. -Smokey the Bear
11:50 Tradin’ Post
12:00 Noon News Round-up
12:30 Mon-Fri Lone Star Brass
Band
Sat.-FB Round up
12:45 Sing-a Long With Mitch
Sat. - Washington Reports s
1:00 Polka Party
Wed.-SS Program til 1:05
Fri.- Herb Kloesel
1:30 Community Bulletin Board
1:35 Polka Party
2:00 News
2:05 Town & Country Time
3:00 News
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weeks and months ago, and we
would now impress it upon your
minds that, in our opinion, no
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PART IV
As early as 1881, it had been
speculated that die Aedes Aegy-
pd mosquito was the essent-
ial ingredient in the transm-
ission cT Yellow Fever. It was
not until 1900 however, and the
work of the U. S. Army volunt-
eers under Major Walter Reed,
that this was actually shown tc
be the case--that the Aedes Ae-
gypti mosquito is necessary for
the spread and transmission of
.the normal variety of Yellow Fe-
ver. What Major Reed and his
associates discovered, was that
the Fever could not spread from
person to person unless this par-
ticular kind of mosquito carried
it there through insect bites--
if therefore they could break
this train of transmission. Yel
low Fever might be eradicated
forever.
In this connection by the way
Yellow Fever has been called
an outstanding example of a “co-
mpletely preventabledLsease”--
gec rid of the Aedes Aegypr
mosquito by destroyingthelrbre-
eding places, and you get rid of
the disease. This wouldn’t help
those who were already suffering >
from the Fever of course, but it
would prevent its spread to others but earnestly state and
But mend for your consideration, that
labor can now be procured to
have some of the above causes
conductive to sickness removec.
mpaign from Labor Day through
Thanksgiving. 3he goal of this
campaign is the purchase cA a
savings bond by every family. 4
Organizations have pledged their*
full cooperation. I am cotfl dent
that many of the people of our.
county who are members of co-
operating, National Organizations
will join In this campaign and buy
an extra bond where they worker
bank,” Chairman Mueller ann-
ounced.
Savings Bonds sales in-Fayette
County during the first half of 1964
totaled $193,938. This report was,
made recently by Walter H.Mue-i
Iler, Chairman of the Fayette (
County Savings Bonds Committee.
Fifty-one per cent of the 1964
* goal has been achieved.
Savings Bonds sales in Texas
during the first half of1964 totaled
>75,465,762 or $0.3% of die 1964
{oal of $150,000,000.
•‘Owning U. S. Savings Bonds
gives financial strength to every
family and economic strength to
the Nation. For this reason
jje Treasury Department is ccn-
u ducting a “Strong Families** ca-
The Journal is startim a new featui e this week. Several citizens
have been asked to write a Guest Editorial on a subject of their own
choosing. The first of these editorials is printed below, is written
by Fayette County Judge Henry J. Schovajsa. The editorial follows:
I have always wanted to do two major things for my children while
tney are "’■owing up. The first in Importance is to give them a good
strong faith tn God. Teach them the work and faith of the church.
Accompany them to church and generally try to be an example to
them in Christian living.
Hie second item « wort*, is also very important. At least 99%
of us are going to have to work for a living until we are slxty-five.
The person who learns early to work hard and that you must work
for what you get will be happy fnllfe. Most of our children are babied.
I see Mothej and Dad mowing the lawn, clipping, washing the cars
arxJ many other things that the children should be doing. Rhe farm
children have an advantage over the dry children. There you do not
run out of work so easy. Do not be afraid you will overwork them.
For every child that is overworked, there are 500 underworked.
Open your homes to them and their friends. When they become old
enough to date they will be in a much better atmosphere in your
home than on the highway or in some dive-
4:00 News
4:05 Roy Edwards Show
4:30 Fri-Space Story
5:00 Evening News Round*Up
5:15 Music for Easy Listening
5:25 Weather Watcher
5:30 Mon-An ounce of preven-
tion
Tues.-Clearing in the Wil-
derness
Wed.-Bible Tells Me So
Thurs., Minds of Men until
6
Fri.-Tex. Business Revue
5:45 Music for Easy Listening
5:55 Sports News
6:00 Sign Off
8:00 Pilgrim Travelers Gospel
Singers
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 Rosanky Baptist Church
9:15 Bob Wilson
10:00 News in Brief
10x05 Army Hour
10:30 Hymn Time
11:00 Church Services
12:00 Sunday Serenade
12:15 Local News
12:30 Clark W. Thompson Re-
port
12:45 Music for Easy Listening
1:30 Lutheran Vespers
2:00 Henry Brosch O-ch.
2:30 Lee Dse Orchestra
4:00 Symphony Hour
4:30 Sign Off ______
of the dead tended to pile up at
_______________________________ die rear of the “old” cemetary
so sad to hear parents say. “I can’t make my 14 year -old go to church faster than they could be buried.
camp”, “I can’t get him to mow the lawn**, “I can*t get him«o go
to church.” Sure you can make-them and you must. Most cf you make
them go to school. There are come parents who pretty well let their
children decide that they can quit school at 16. When you let them do
this they will be sorry the rest of their lives. It is not their fault
but yours. You know better but they do not.
Cars in high school are not good. Educators have taken many sur-
veys. Statistics prove that the average boy will drop his school grades
one to two notches when he gets a car. A “B” student becomes a
**C*’ student or ever lower.
There are exceptions to these rules. Be most careful because
the chances are yours in an average child and the rules apply. Most
know what is best for our children but we fail to do what
is best. We think we are depriving them wnen we say no. We say
we are just tired of arguing and we do the work ourselves or let
them go on some escapade when we know they are not safe. Rem-
ember that today your 15 year old might think that you are wonder-
ful for letting her do as she pleases. Someday later she may live
to regret it and know tha, ,ou were a pretty poor parent.
Remember that you do love them when you make them do things
that are right.
With Mlflftbesefears and mis-
givings therefore, Lt Is curiously
surprising to Team that there
were people in La Grange who
seemed to have an idea about the
spread of die disease which was
for 1867-far in advance of die
time. . . as the following quo-
tation of a “Resolution’* from
“The State Rights Democrat”
(La Grange, Texas) of Januray
24, 1868 (shortly after the epid-
eic’s conclusion) will testify:
“To the Honorable Mayor and
Board of Aidermen, of the town
of La Grange.
GENTLEMEN:- We, the under-
signed citizens of the town of
La Grange would most respect-
fully beg leave to report to your
honorable body that we have just
reason to believe that our little
city was visited with the terrible
scourge of Yellow Fever, die past
fall, from, among others, the fol-
lowing causes, to wit:
1st. The stagnant pools of wa-
ter permitted to remain upon die
public square, and several streets
i of die town.
2nd. The perfect sea of high
and thick weeds all over the town
that should have been cut down,
and destroyed according to ordi-
nances. made and provided, etc.
3rd, The bringing of the dis-
ease from Infected districts into
our midst by parties not citizens
of the town of La Grange.
We would also respectfully re-
quest and petition your Honor-
able body, as you have already
commenced the collection of cor-
poration taxes for the present
year, to give us a statement th-
rough ffie town papers, as to the
disbursement of the income tax-
es of the past year, and the
amount of funds now on hand.
in the same community,
none of this was known in the mid-
dle of die 19th century, and people
were terrified of the sick bodies.
and even of the corpses of Yellow The public square and streets
Fever victims. . . though there should be drained and theunder-
was no possibility of contract-
ing the disease from them (un-
less, of course, you happened
to I
while standing there). The dead
themselves became a real prob-
lem to the living in yet another
way - - ’’during die epidemic,
our town was without a sexton’’; time should be lost in having
and It was said, the rude coffins die sanitary condition of thetown
pat in good order. Many of your
petitioners have seen and learned
lessons of woe indie late epidem-
ic that swept awaysomanyof our j
fathers, mothers, wives, child-
ren, sisters and brothers, and
we must be permitted to talk
slain to you upon this subject.
We would also recommend tc
your honorable body and request
•hat you pass an ordinance re-
quiring a strict quarantine to be
kept up in La Grange, whenever
it is ascertained that sickness
in epidemic form of any kind exi-
sts in this state’’.
This amazing document is sig-
.ed by 98 townspeople - - most
of whom had lost at least one
relative during the epidemic. Wh
ether of not the “Honorable •
Body” at City Hall was moved
to destroy die breeding places of ■
the mosquitoes and clean up the
town as requested is not recor-
ded by The State Rights Demo-
crat. All that is a matter of
record is that subsequently La
Grange was spared from further ‘
epidemics of this nature. “The
Scourge of 1867” would alone re-
main as the “most disasterious”
natural disaster in the his-
tory of La Grange and “Old
Fayette’’ Texas.
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