The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1953 Page: 1 of 7
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Angela Clark
“The Newspaper With A Purpose — Since 1880”
Volume 74
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday May I 5, I 953
Number 20
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needy child to assistance in
jor disasters.
At this time the Salvation
Army has five mobile units
at San Angelo and eight at
\ Waco, assisting in relief work
in these two tornado stricken
areas.
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assumed
accidents,
b°th nouna lop-uarmine is now a-
■ ■ waiting the outcome of District
42B to get a chance at winning
Approximately 250
turned out for the La Grange
FFA chapter’s annual round-up | sented the awards, which
and barbecue at the high school
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Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Sebesta and
children and Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Sula Jr. of Texas City spent Mo-
ther’s Day with Mr. and Mrs. J.
J. Sula here.
now
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come across with more on
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Well, we have just finished
trying the cases in the District
Court of the thieves that had
committed most of the burgla-
county
Court.
LAW IS CHANGED,
DOCTORS REMAIN
Dr. Robert G. Thompson and
Dr. L. F. Zatopek, attaches of
; the Boelsche Clinic here, will
not have to report back to the
armed forces.
The two medics have been ad-
vised by the surgeon general's
office at Washington, 1X2, that
a new law has been passed which
puts them in “Category 4.”
This means that they will not
be called for service, inasmuch
as they had previous military
service.
Thurman, Eugene
Frankie E. Walla of
Royce N. Warnken,
Wessels, Don T. Williams, Mari-
Garden Club Sets
Meeting At Camp
The La Grange Garden Club
will hold its regular meeting at
the Hermes camp on Thursday,
May 21 at 10 AM.
There will be a business meet-
ing at 10 o’clock, and a luncheon
will follow. The session will be
held “rain or shine,’’ officers
said.
All members are urged to at-
tend, and visitors are welcome.
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WEEKLY AUCTION
SALES REPORT
Following is a report on the
weekly sale held last Friday at
the La Grange Livestock Auc-
tion Co.
ries and thefts in the
since the last term of
Just to give you good people an
idea of how crime is on the in-
crease everywhere, I will quote
J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the
F. B. I.: “During 1952, for the
first time in the history of re-
corded crime, statistics - there
were more than two million ma-
jor crimes in the United States.
This represents an increase of
8.2 percent over 1951, and it
seems like it will run a lot high-
er this year.” Just a few days
ago the store and a service sta-
tion at Cistern were broken into
and a small amount of money
and other valuables stolen. The
owner of the Service Station
took the number of a car that
we think pulled the Job - which
was 9161. This man did the right
thing by taking this number.
However, he failed to get the
two letters that are on the Li-
cense Plates, and for this reason
The SA maintains a home and
hospital for unwed mothers at
San Antonio, a boys’ camp for
underprivileged youths at Irv-
ing near Dallas, assists prison
parolees in employment and to
help in their rehabilitation, of-
fers medical help, Christmas
baskets for needy children,
meals to needy transients, as-
sists with funds for operations
for needy people, etc.
Mr. Franze went on to say
that the SA assists in any
emergency, and If county unit
funds would become exhausted,
' win
a
out first the location of the fire
before that can proceed there,
and this should be and must be
done while the siren is blowing
and immediately thereafter.
And they cannot do their best
in firefighting if: strong college and
All the streets and alleys *----1------’
leading to the location of the |
fire are jammed with vehicles of
eager citizens going to see the
excitement. The fireboys origin-
ate from all parts of the city,
and have to proceed also to this
point either on the fire trucks
or on their < ' ‘ ‘
this should be done while
siren is blowing or T _
thereafter. If these men are de-1 their wins were 7-0 affairs.
The La Grange tennis star is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Hausmann of La Grange. He is
cial science. ■
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RT-C Beats Smithville
For District Title
Coach W. F. Graeber’s Round
Top-Carmine High School Cubs
play-off
by
score of 6-2 last Thursday
Carmine, thus winning the dis-
trict Championship of District
41B.
Travs Etzel, the winning hur-
ler, allowed five hits, struck out
three and gave up three bases
on balls and was the leading hit-
ter with two singles. Ervin Stol-
le and J. Matocha pitched for
the Smithville team with Stolle
being charged with the loss. To-
gether they allowed six hits,
struck out two batters and walk-
ed two. Buddy Kellar was cre-
dited with two singles to lead
the Smithville hitting.
Round Top-Carmine is
tained by traffic jams, inter-
ference of racing cars, etc., se-
rious complications can result,
not only from traffic hazards
but also disaterous conditions
can in the meantime result at
the fire.
These boys have to get to the
fire, and it is to the benefit of
all that they arrive first.
Spectators are welcomed
all proper times, however,
ponsibility cannot be
in events of traffic
anyone getting hurt at the fire
or getting wet from hose lines
and the like. Your cooperation
with our police detail handling
traffic will sincerely be appreci-
ated.
Wait a few minutes after the
alarm is sounded before you call
or proceed to the fire. It just
might be your home and your
family in trouble. No one would
knowingly or unknowingly want
to be an accomplice to such a
disaster.
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Band Concert Set
Friday At 8 PM
Ernest Clark’s La Grange
High School band will present
a concert in the school gym Fri-
day at 8 PM.
There will be “music for eve-
ryone,” and a special treat will
be several numbers by “Hans
and His Hungry Five from Ger-
many.”
Funds derived from the con-
cert will be used to pay for a-
wards which band students re-
ceive for outstanding service.
This year 31 jacket awards and
18 letter awards are being given.
Admission is only 50c and
25c.
The public is cordially invited.
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Vlrs. Giese Awarded
WSG Service.Pin
At a recent meeting of
Wesleyan Service Guild of the
Methodist Church, Mrs. E. A.
Giese received the honor of a
life membership in this organi-
zation.
The life membership pin was
awarded Mrs. Giese by the Guild
members, tn appreciation of her
services to the Guild, as presi-
dent, for the current year.
The funds necessary for this
honor go for missions.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hent-
schel, La Grange, on the arrival
of a boy on May 10, weight 7 lbs.
1 oz. MA II
61LHS Seniors
For Graduation
Here On Nay 28
Graduation exercises for the
La Grange High School senior
class will be held on Leopard
Field here Thursday night, May
28, with 61 senior candidates up
for graduation.
The speaker will be Dr. J. I.
McCord, dean of the Austin
Presbyterian Seminary. Bacca-
laureate services for the gradu-
ating class are scheduled
Sunday, May 24.
Here are the graduation can-
didates, address being La
Grange unless noted otherwise:
Jo Ann Albers, Irene Antosh,
Gloria Mae Baca, Lucille A.
Blume, Matthew Buscha, Ber-
nice A. Cemosek, Dennis J. Cer-
nosek, Daniel Drab, Alfred E.
Drescher, Dorothy Mae Foyt of
Fayetteville, Norman D. Frede,
Dolores E. Freudenberg,
ward L. Freudenberg of
Point Rl, Leslie A. Giese
Warda, Glen R. Guettler, Don-
ald R. Hagemann, Leniel Har-
bers of West Point Rl, Minnie
M. Harbers of West Point Rl,
Winchester,
Winchester,
West
An all-day school picnic, with
dinner at noon, was planned for
Thursday, May 14.
Officers elected were:
Alvin Weikel, reelected
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La Grange Markets
Middling Cotton 32.75
Eggs, Grade A 49c
Eggs, Grade B ... 43c
Pullet Eggs 30c
Eggs, Grade C 20c
Hens 21c
Fryers j 24c
Roosters 10c
Sweet Cream:
Direct shippers
Sour Cream:
Direct shippers
Station ....
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P-TA MEET IS SET
THURSDAY AT 3:30
The regular meeting of the La
Grange P-TA will be held at the
Hermes cafeteria Thursday at
3:30 PM, with the installation
of newly-elected officers as one
of the important business items.
Entertainment will be provid-
ed by the high school band, and
I Mrs. W. C. Heise will be the
guest speaker. Her'topic will be,
“It’s Good to Be An American.” $150.00 cwt.
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SQUAD GAME SET
La Grange’s Leopards will
close spring football training
with an intrasquad game Sat-
urday night at 8 o’clock. Ad-
mission will be “two bits per
head,” Coach Charlie Jungmi-
chel said.
Elgin N. Hart of
Jack C. Hart of
Lawrence C. Hatfield of
Point, John E. Hofmann, Dennis
F. Juren of Ellinger, Marilyn A.
Kalisek of West Point, Margaret
F. Kallus, Eldyn Karisch of
Smithville, Marilyn F. Kasper
of Smithville, John Weldon Koe-
nig, John Roy Goepke of Ellin-
ger, Jacqueline Kubena of Ellin-
ger, Clarence Legler,
Lehmann of Warda.
Also: Lewis C. Lelfeste, Ger-
aldine C. Lidiak, Dolores Mel-
cher, LuBeth Meyer, John C.
Niemeyer, Leslie F. Oppermann,
James A. Prause, Jo Ann Ro-
---------, ------- . Rosenberg,
Alvin R. Russ, Marilyn M. Sa-
las, Barbara L. Schneider, Del-
ores A. Schuetze of Winchester,
Annie R. Sedlacek, Charlene M.
Slanina of Ellinger, Beatrice J.
Stoerner, Terry j. Struve, G. R.
Voelkel,
Ellinger,
Marilyn
lyn Yargus, Tommy Zatopek of
Ellinger, and Gilbert Zimmer-
Their practices at the Boel-
sche Clinic, therefore, will con-
tinue uninterrupted.
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518th Graders
Slate Rites For
Friday, Nay 29
Fifty-one members of
eight grade of the La Grange
High School will receive certifi-
cates of promotion at exercises
to be held in the school gym on
Friday night, May 29.
The Rev. H. T. Flachmeier
will deliver the commencement
address, and the Rev. Raymond
W. Durst of Rutersville will of-
fer the invocation and benedic-
tion.
JUST RAMBLING
Burning the candle at 1
ends makes an awful drip . .
If wars were paid for in
vance, there wouldn’t be any . .
Temptations are much easier to
find if you are looking for them!
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ATTEND FUNERAL
B. X. McGuire, daughter Pat
and son Frank, and Chris B.
Berry went to Grandfield, Okla.,
this week for the funeral of the
former’s brother, Ambrose M.
McGuire, 49, who passed away
Saturday and whose rites were
held Monday. He leaves one bro-
ther and seven sisters.
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Events Calendar
May 14—La Grange P-TA
meeting at 3:30 PM.
May 14—City election on sale
of property for use for US Gov-
ernment Agricultural building,
8 AM to 7 PM.
May 14—American
meeting, 8 PM.
May 15—High School
concert, 8 PM.
May 19—Lions Club meeting
and luncheon, 12:05 PM.
May 19—Rebekahs meeting at
8 PM.
May 20—VFW meeting at 8
PM.
May 21—Garden Club meeting
at Hermes camp, 11 AM.
RECEIPTS:
Hogs 295
Sheep 85
Horses and mules 4
PRICES PAID:
Butcher Prices
Cows, canner to butcher $6.00
to $13.50 cwt.
Calves, cull to choice $7.00 to
$25.00 cwt.
Bulls, light to heavy $10.00 to
$16.00 cwt.
Stocker Prices
Cows and calves $70.00
$110.00 Hd.
Cows and heifers $55.00
$105.00 Hd.
Cows and heifers $9.00
Steers $10.00 to $15.00 cwt.
Calves $11.00 to 18.00 cwt.
Hogs
Good to choice $23.75 to $24.-
40 cwt.
Lights $22.00 to $23.50 cwt.
Sows $18.00 to $21.50 cwt.
Feeders $16.00 to 23.00 cwt.
Pigs $6.00 to $10.00 Hd.
Horses and mules, lb. basis $3.-
00 to $4.00 cwt.
Sheep
Lambs $10.00 to $17.80 cwt.
Bucks and ewes $6.00 to $10.-
00 cwt.
»F TEXAS,
20, 1953
4ADE BY
>ER SEC-
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Confirmation And
Bible Schools Set
Confirmation rites will take
place Sunday, May 17, at the St.
John’s Lutheran Church at Ru-
tersville for the following:
Kervin Reuter, Alberta Sch-
oltz, and Deanna Woehst. The
Prairie Valley Lutheran Church
will receive the following con-
firmands on May 24: Gerald
Havemann, Barbara Hatfield,
Kermit Raschke, Kermit Trey-
big, and Henry Lee Treybig.
Both churches are planning a
Bible School, to be held weekly.
The Rutersville church will have
its first session Thursday, June
11th, from 2:00 to 4:30 PM, and
will meet every Thursday after-
noon. through August 13. The
Prairie Valley church will be-
gin its Bible School Wednesday,
June 10, and meet every Wed-
nesday afternoon from 2:00 to
4:30 through August 12.
The lessons and handwork
will all be based on the theme
“My Christian Faith”. Residents
of both these areas are sincerely
invited to bring their children
from the ages of 3 up to confir-
mation.
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HI-STANDARD
GETS AWARD
The Hi-Stan^ard, school
newspaper of La Grange High
School, has been presented an a-
ward of merit in journalism by
the University Interscholastic
League Press Conference.
The Press Conference, Texas-
wide organization of more than
240 public school publications,
climaxed its 26th annual conven-
tion in Austin Saturday with the
announcement of the rating of
member papers in each of five
classifications. The Hi-Standard
was one of 27 papers within its
classification to receive this a-
ward.
The award recognizej the pa-
per for the work done by its
«taff during the 1952-1953
school year. The Hi-Standard is
Wes-
co-skippered by Marilyn
seis and Barbara Barton.
The Award of Merit is given
“in recognition of the worthy
contributions which, by main-
taining a notable level of journ-
alistic quality, the paper has
Willie Rotter was in charge of made to the achool for which it
the closing ceremony. was published.”
a
250 Are Present
FFA’s Hold Round-Up, Annual Barbecue
people | plishments.
Adviser Carroll C. Smith pre-
were:
Leroy Schneider, best all-a-
round first year boy; Roy Piet-
sch, best all-around second year
boy; John Hagler, star Lone
Star Farmer of the chapter; best
swine project, Edward Lewis
Weeren; dairy, Boyd Weems;
beef, William Kelly; lamb, Ed-
win Gau; and highest rating in
the ag class for scholarship, Le-
nd Harbers.
The principal address was by
E. W. Walton, head of the ag
educational department at Tex-
as A&M College. After a few
witticisms, he got serious and
spoke of the soil which, he said,
if not protected, will mean the
ad- .---
■ the bi-district title.
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Swedish Weaving
Studied By Club
The Warda Home Demonstra-
tion Club met in the H. D. kit-
chen in La Grange on April 28
at 2 PM, with Mrs. Ernest Leh-
mann as hostess. Ten members
and four visitors were present.
To observe National Home'
Demonstration Week, the clubi
made plans to place flowers in
the Holy Cross Lutheran
Church on May 3.
The March and April Council
two gym Monday night.
were'
the
• Fire, water and wind can
be . . . and are . . . disastrous
when they come in the wrong
proportions. So this week we’re
gonna take up the element of
fire, and Fire Chief A. H. (GUS) j
SPACEK comes across with a
dandy . . . and informative ... I
yam, especially as it pertains to
“spectators.” Here it is:
WAIT IS YOUR
HOME BURNING?
No thinking citizen would
knowlingly or unknowlingly aid
in the destruction by fire
lives and property. Yet
Grange runs that risk <
time the fire alarm is sounded.
Approximately 40 volunteer
firemen have offered their servi-
ces for the protection of lives
arid property from fires in La
Grange. These men are not paid.
What they do is strictly in the
line of service, and they want to
help.
But they cannot do their best
in firefighting if:
The telephone switchboard is
jammed with calls from eager i
citizens wanting to know where'
the fire is. The fireboys, includ-i
reports were given and
year-book suggestions
made, to be presented at
next council meeting.
A demonstration on Swedish
weaving was given by the hos-
tess, who also displayed a va-
riety of finished towels, using
the method demonstrated.
At the close of the meeting
Mrs. Robert Lehmann was sur-
prised with a pink and blue
shower.
The next meeting will be held
May 26 at the Warda Parish
Hall, with making draperies as
the demonstration.
downfall of the world. All man-
kind is dependant upon the soil
for livelihood and it will be up
to the youth of today to
care of it, he admonished.
It was announced at
round-up that Jon Hagler
been elected vice president—
without a run-off-in Area III,
and that he will vie with those
of the nine other areas for the
state presidency at the state
convention at Fort Worth on
July 15. If he is successful, he
would be the second state presi-
dent of the FFA in three years—
Franklin Brandt having attain-
ed that high honor three years
ago.
Mrs.
presi-
dent; Mrs. Milam Docekal, vice
president; Mrs. A. J. Darilek,
reelected secretary; Mrs Jerry
Kulhanek, treasurer; and Mrs.
Fances Baca, reelected kitchen
chairman.
The recent cash drive was re-
ported as having been a huge
success.
rXT*"* maiOr'ng in “’Sheriff ‘Jim’.’ Report-
Fayette Crime Practically Solved
it is impossible to check who the
car belongs to. I want to again bertson,* Diane F
request everyone in taking down - - - - - '
a car number to be sure and get
the two letters that are on the
number plate, otherwise we can-
not trace who nor what County
it belongs to. Now for the daily
(activities:
statement recently released by April 1: We had several cases
in Justice Court and were busy
around the office.
April 2: Two jailed for
turbing the peace and trip
Holman serving Citations.
April 3: Call to investigate a
wreck and general routine.
April 4: One jailed for traffic
violation.
April 5: Trip to Rutersville
for investigation and several lo-
cal calls.
April 6: Call near Carmine Y
one arrested for the Sheriff at
Jourdanton for hot checks. Two
Deputies summoning witnesses
for the District Court. Two ar-
rested for fighting and one De-
puty to Austin with two mental
patients. The Grand Jury con-
vened today.
(See FLOURNOY, Back Page)
An interesting program fol-
lowed the meal, which consisted
of delicious barbecued chicken
and the trimmings.
The Harmonaires furnished
music prior to the dinner and a
quartet composed of Gloria Ba-
ca, Marilyn Yargus, Jacqueline
Kubena and LuBeth Meyer, ren-
dered several vocal numbers.
Vera Mae Sullk was intro-
duced as the FFA chapter
sweetheart, and out-of-town
guests were presented by John
Hagler. Roy Pietsch reviewed
the chapter’s past year accom-247,216.89
6,000.00
Campaign For
County Unit
Begins Tuesday
The Salvation Army, one of
this nation’s most worthy ben-
evolent organizations, will open
a drive for $3,000 in funds In
Fayette County next Tuesday
morning.
Frank Kana, La Grange in-
suranceman, heads the camp-
aign.
The county’s Salvation Army
service unit consists of A. R.
Ehlers, La Grange, chairman;
Leon Rosenberg, La
treasurer; Wm. F.
vice chairman; C. A. Lemmons,
La Grange; Mrs. Ray
Schulenburg; C. A.
Flatonia; E. J. Knesek, Fayet-
teville; W. J. Koehl, Ellinger;
H. L. F. Doerr, Carmine; Mrs.
J. H. Browning, West Point;
and Mrs. M. V. Harris, Winches-
ter.
L. J. Franze of Houston, field
representative for the SA, was
in La Grange Tuesday to organ-
ize the campaign. He explained
that all funds raised remain in
Texas, one-third of it in
county unit’s treasury,
funds are used for anything like
a
ma-
Tomato Season
At Fayettevile
Opens At 51-2c
The tomato buying sea-
son—for Fayetteville and El-
linger area growers—opened |
at Fayetteville Monday, with
the price of 5 %-cents per
pound.
H. G. Timm Produce Co. of
Hallettsville are the buyers,
and they are open
week-day from noon
night.
Johnnie Cufr, president of
the Fayetteville Chamber of
Commerce, reported Wednes-
day morning that a three-
quarter inch rain the night
before added materially to the
tomato crop, as well as to
other crops.
Tomatoes are coming in at
a fast clip, he said.
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Hausmann Is TLC
Tennis Winner
ing the fire station, have to find j SEGUIN.—A former
Grange High School
Glen Roy Hausmann, was a|
mainstay on the Texas Lutheran
College tennis team, which clos-
ed the season with a 12-2 record.
In addition to victories over
1 university
teams in regular play, the TLC
netmen won the team honors in
Big State Conference play, tak-
ing three places out of four
events.
The TLC victories included
double wins over St. Edward’s
University, St. Mary’s Universi-
own vehicles, and I ty, Trinity University, Schrei-
> thejner Institute, and Southwest
immediately Texas State College. Five ■ of
Closing Plans Made,
Officers Elected By
; Sacred Heart P-TA
Twenty-eight members of the
Sacred Heart P-TA were pre-
' sent for the last meeting of the
j season Tuesday, when plans for
I school closing were made and
I officers for the coming year
I were elected.
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