The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1951 Page: 1 of 12
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NO. 8
Plans Set For Second
Millionth Bell Stockholder
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Free Auction Here Friday
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Between keeping up with their
League
the
200 ALUMNI
Citizens Shower Gifts
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appeal by the
women
ation to $1.50.
This would give
badly-needed $14,-
secretary -
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ban and her daughter Miss Lillie
mine, and Clayton Daughtry.
dren and grandchildren.
Athletics Face Busy
Schedule This Week
ELECTION DATE
TO BE SET AT
JUNE MEETING
Central Texas Amateur
schedule and meeting
Ele-
are
and
night services will be held.
Fourth Graders
Display Science
Work Downtown
Fourth graders of Elgin
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Elgin
Mrs. Walter Carlson,
treasurer.
Following group
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the district a
Rites Set Today
For J. W. Hibbs
“Funeral services for J.
Hibbs, 57, are set for 4:00 p. m.
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Citizens Seek School Tax Hike But Board Delays Action
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* SIXTY-FIRST YEAR
Villarreal, Karin Lundgren, Joyce bal and her daugiier iliss Lillie
Smarr, Doris Ball, Mary Jo Ro-1 Belle Urban, also from her chil-
School alumni from throughout
Texas gathered here last week end
for the annual Alumni Association
Banquet Saturday night at the
high school gymnasium.
Among Texas cities represented
were Austin, Houston, San Anton-
io, Round Mountain, Beaumont,
Victoria, Taylor, Corpus Christi,
and Yorktown.
Officers elected for 1952 were
Wayland Krueger, president; W.
H. Rivers III, vice-president; and
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Friends Send Aid
After Purse Stolen
IMrs. Janie Moore of Elgin,
retired school teacher, had
Athletics will be facing their bus-
iest week of the young baseball
season through the next seven
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the auction block. “Even a small
offering such as a set of used
tires, a basket of groceries or a
suit of work clothes will help
stimulate activity at the sale,” R.
N. Jensen, chairman of the com-
mittee, pointed out, “and anything
Elginites are responding gen-, and contributors in response to an
erously to a request for contribu- —
The Elgin Black Monarchs lost
a tough one to the Bastrop Tigers
last Friday night at Memorial
Park. The final score was 9—8.
Friday night, May 18, the Mon-
archs will play the Taylor base-
ball team, the Black Ducks, on
the local diamond. Game time is
8 o’clock.
mentary School this wek end
proudly inviting parents
we can do at this stage to help
the auction along will be worth
the effort.” All members of the
committee expressed satisfaction
with the outcome of the first sale
and said that the auction had
every chance to grow into popu-
lar, permanent enterprise if giv-
en proper civic suppot.
of the
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that the board must “act at the
earliest practicable time” and that
an election must be held within
30 days of the board’s action on
the matter. Since the board must
act on June 4 unless a very
strong excuse is offered for con-
tinued delay, the latest date of
the proposed election can not be
further away than July 3.
As proposed by the petition, the
school tax would be raised from
its present $1.00 per $100 evalu-
With only one change in the tend the sale and to bring some
overall scheme followed in the items from their stores to put on
singing of
Robert Gordon, assistant dean
of student life at Texas Univer-
sity and an ordained Baptist min-
ister, will speak at First Presby-
terian Church in Elgin this Sun-
day. His message will be especially
directed to the young people. Jack
Harrison, minister of the church,
will be at the baccalaureate ser-
vice of Austin Presbyterian Theo-
logical Seminary at this time. No
days. Five games are on schedule,
three of them to be played at
Memorial Park.
On Friday night, May 18, the
Athletics will go to Taylor to bat-
tle a Taylor team which is cur-
rently undefeated in league play.
On Sunday at 3:00 p. m. at Mem-
orial Park they will battle an Aus-
tin nine composed mostly of
University of Texas players, in-
cluding fabled fullback Byron
Townsend. Townsend may be slat-
ed for mound duties against the
Athletics on this occasion.
On Tuesday night of next week
the Athletics will play hosts to
the Brenham Lions, with game
time set for 8:00 o’clock at the
local park. Pitching for the El-
gin club against Brenham will be
Joe Lee Kastner, a former Elgin
High star now under contract with
the Austin Pioneers.
Next Wednesday night, May
23, the Athletics will go to Se-
guin for a non-league game. Pit-
ching for the Seguin club is Floyd
Mechler, former Elgin High head
football coach, who will be on the
mound at Memorial Park when
Seguin plays a return engagement
sometime before the end of May.
I Then on Thursday, May 24, the
Athletics will get back to the
league wars by tangling with
Granger under the lights of the
local park.
The Elgin nine won one, lost
one in loop play last week, and is
now tied in second place with
tions for the displaced Polish fam-
ily who arrived in the Pe Lee
community May 6, after the local
Seventh-day Adventist Church
arranged their coming to Amer-
ica.
Mr. and Mrs. Wladislaw Kuzma
and children are getting settled in
their home at Pe Lee, Mr. Kuzma
has started farming, and the en-
tire family is delighted with their
new home, according to Ralph
Jensen and other residents of Pe
Lee
A partial list of contributions
CIRCULATING IN BASTROP, TRAVIS, WILLIAMSON AND LEE COUNTIES
THE ELGIN COURIER
AND FOUI COUNrV nEws
________________________________________ELGIN, BASTROP COUNTY?TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAy"17, 1951 ------------------------------------
friends to view their science class
handiwork in a display window at
Meyer’s Dept. Store on Main
Street.
Working with newspapers,
twine, dry temp-era, wallpaper
paste, and white shellac, the kids
have constructed a menagerie of
animals, both wild and domestic,
in a color range that shows imig-
ination. Almost every animal
known to man is included, as well
as several apparently new species.
There are tigers, zebras, pan-
thers, giraffes, an elephant, ducks
dogs of many breeds, horses,
mules, a rhinoceros, a hippopot-
amus, a dinosaur, an anteater, a
turtle, and others.
The class instructors are Mrs.
Franklin Condron and Mrs. Bob
Gaines. The children made the
animals as part of their animal
study in science this spring.
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Manorites To See
New Fire Engine
On Monday, May 21 the citi-
zens of Manor will be given a
special demonstration of the capa-
cities and workings of the Elgin
Vol. Fire Department’s new com-
munity truck. The truck, bearing
several members of the depart-
ment, will be driven to Manor and
will be on display there from 6:30
to 7:30 p. m. Operation of the
equipment will be shown at 7:00
p. m.
This arrangement is the result
of a desire on the part of Manor-
ites to see the new engine, toward
the purchase of which they con-
tributed $500.
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“America,” Donald Whitten gave
the invocation. Mrs. Sadie Belle
Davis welcomed those present.
Classes honored at the banquet
were those of 1902, 1912, 1922,
1932, and 1942.
Honey Boy and his Jazz Kings,
with Miss Catherine Cottingham
as vocalist, provided music. A
male quintet composed of Milton
Dusek, Elmer Burke, Jack Webb,
Tommie McCullough, and Clay
Davis, also sang.
Vocal selections sung by C. Reg
Taylor were “Shadrack” and “The
Lilac Tree.”
Mrs W. H. Rivers III presented a
poem honoring Elgin High school
graduates who had married wives
or husbands not from Elgin and
who are now living here. Those
so honored were Messrs. and
Mesdames J. L. Dannelley, Jesse
Miller, Ray Arbuckle, Harold
Carter, Franklin Condron, Joe
Simon, Joseph Poth Jr, W. H. Riv-
ers III, Erwin Roemer, Roy Riv-
ers Sr., Jack Webb, W. H. Riv-
ers Jr., James Cartwright, Roy
Rivers Jr., and Oscar Snowden.
The alumni ate a baked turkey
dinner in the gymnasium amid de-
corations in the school colors of
purple and white. White roses and
lighted tapers also were used for
color. Place cards were set for
graduates from the classes of
1900 to 1951.
Group singing "ay the Good
Lord Bless and Keep You” was
followed by dancing to the music
of Honeyboy and his Jazz Kings.
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Bastrop / Defeats
Monarchs 9 — 8
MAY 26 IS SET
AS POPPY DAY
Saturday, May 26 will be Pop-
py Day in Elgin, American Leg-
ion Commander David C. Swen-
son announced Wednesday. Mem-
orial Day is Wednesday, May 30.
American Legion Auxiliary
members and junior members will
distribute the familair poppies on
Elgin streets on Poppy Day and
will accept contributions for use
in helping disabled veterans and
their families.
The poppies are made by vet-
erans. All contributions go direct-
ly for veterans’ aid, as expenses
connected with distributing the
poppies are borne by the Legion
Auxiliary, Mr. Swenson said.
He added that Legion Auxiliary
members and junior members are
the only persons authorized or
recognized by the Legion to re-
ceive contributions for veterans in
Elgin.
Helping to publicize Poppy Day
in Elgin will be numerous post-
ers carrying out the Poppy Day
theme, made by fourth and fifth
grade students at Elgin Elemen-
tary School. Making the posters
gave the youngsters a clearer un-
derstanding of the day and their
posters will be displayed in local
merchants’ windows on Poppy
Day.
Awards were made by the Am-
erican Legion Auxiliary for the
most effective posters as follows:
first prize, $2, to Boyd Henry;
second prize, $1, to Barney Lee
Kemp; honorable mention, 50
cents each, to Betty Ann Robin-
son, Travis Roberts, Lynn Justyne
Holmes, Estella Arzola, Kenneth
Daughtry, Judy Sanders, Eugene
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church Dorcas Society follows:
divan, James Freeman; bed and
mattress, Walter Kastner; bed,
Mrs. Paul Abel; silverware and
sheet, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer L. Si-
mon; a breakfast room suite, Mrs.
Dennis Snowden; % lug tomatoes,
50 pounds new Irish potatoes, and
% sack of onions, Ralph Jensen;
50 pounds of flour, John Bre-
mond; staples and other groceries,
Fowler’s Cash Grocery; washing
powder, Hoskins Grocery; towels,
wash cloths, and dish cloths, Joe’s
Toggery; $2 cash, J. A. Dube; $5
cash, R. V. Rabb; washing supplies
and groceries, Piggly Wiggly; sy-
rup, Meyer’s Service Station and
Grocery; 5 cans English peas,
Sanders Grocery; can of flour,
Ball Mercantile; broom and mop,
Q & S Grocery; 6 cans of milk,
Foehner’s Grocery; wash board,
Eli Aronson’s Grocery; two tubs,
Otto Wiley; water bucket, Elgin
Independent Oil Co.; 100 baby
chicks, Fails Feed and Supply
Store. Clothing has been sent by
Mesdames John L. Dannelley,
Paul Abel, Brown, the Dorcas Soc-
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EL-HI BANQUETUn Kefugee Family
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More than 200 Elgin High
P. T. A. SEEKS ACTION
At the regular monthly meeting
of the Elgin Parent-Teachers As-
sociation Wednesday । afternoon
members present unanimously
adopted a resolution calling for
the school board to take into con-
sideration the petition calling for
an election on the proposed school
tax hike, to avoid delay and to set
the election date without further
postponement.
today (Thursday) from the chap-
I el of Miller Mortuary. Burial will
be in the Youngs Prairie Ceme-
) tery.
Mr. Hibbs, a retired farmer,
died in Brackenridge Hospital in
Austin Wednesday morning fol-
loving a long illness. He was born
[ Aug. 4, 1893 and had spent his
' entire life in Bastrop and Travis
: counties.
) eurvivors are the widow, one
daughter Robbie Jean Hibbs; two
। sons, Woodie and Raleigh Hibbs
all of Austin; two sisters and two
brothers.
Granger behind league-leading
Taylor.
The -game against Granger last
Thursday night at Memorial Park
was stretched into the tenth in-
ning before W. E. Arbuckle sing-
led home the run that gave the
Elgin crew a hard - earned 7—6
victory. Though he was relieved
by Virgil Rohlack in the sixth, El-
gin’s starting pitcher Sonny
Hanke received credit for the vic-
lory.
Last Sunday afternoon Taylor
continued its dominance of the
league by again defeating the
Athletics, this time by a 7—4
count. Errors afield by the Ath-
letics contributed materially to
the Taylor victory.
O. O. (Big Foot) Lewis, man-
ager of the local nine, is still
scouting the countryside for ad-
ditional talent for his team and
has several prospects in sight.
Probably the most definite of
these is a young Van High school
slugger named Jerrel Landrum,
who is being brought to Elgin this
week-end by former El-Hi coach
K. H. Thormahlen. Landrum, who
has another year in high school,
is already being wooed by profes-
sional baseball scouts. In a recent
game against Tyler he hit home
runs his first three times at bat.
He will be in the Elgin lineup on
Friday against Taylor and again
on Sunday against the Austin
nine. If Athletic officials like
him, an effort will be made to se-
cure a job in Elgin for him this
sumer, so that he can play the
entire season here.
Officials of the Elgin Athletic
Association are again urging local
basebail fans to turn out for
games at Memorial Park. At no
game so far this year have paid
admisions exceeded 100— not
even Sunday against the strong
Taylor nine. The Athletics are
now playing a top-notch' brand of
ball against excellent opposition,
and officials of the association be-
lieve that local fans will be get-
ting their money’s worth any time
they come out to Memorial Park
mands of non-league
throughout the area, the
initial sale two weeks ago, mem-
bers of the Elgin Chamber of
q Commerce’s Agricultural Commit-
tee completed plans for the second
free public auction Tuesday night.
The auction will be held Friday
. afternoon on the vacant lot on
NDepot Street in front of the Elgin
Courier. The sale will begin at 4
p. m. instead of 1:30 p. m. as it
did two weeks ago. The commit-
gtee changed the starting time af-
ter farmers attending the original
sale complained that the earlier
hour caused them to have to dis-
continue work in order to attend.
0 Professional auctioneer Jack
Sundberg will again be in charge
of the sale, and participants will
still be allowed to put up for auc-
tion anything of commercial value
♦and will have the right to refuse
any final bid. Merchandise,
equipment, livestock, etc., will be
brought to the lot at sale time
pand buyers will have a chance to
examine the offerings before the
bidding begins. There is no re-
striction against private sales on
the grounds, and there will be
no sales charge for any goods
disposed of through the auctioneer
Elsewhere in this week’s Cour-
ier is a list of the goods already
w offered for sale, and many more
items are expected by auction
time Friday afternoon. Indica-
tions are that 4 s con l sale vi"
be much larger than the first,
gboth in the quantity and variety
of offerings and in the general at-
tendance.
The Agriculture Committee is-
sued a special appeal Tuesday
‘night for Elgin merchants to at-
faith in humanity reaffirmed last
week when friends sent money
and gifts after Mrs. Moore’s purse
had been stolen.
While Mrs. Moore visited With
a neighbor, someone entered her
lighted home by opening a rear
screen door and took her purse
containing prescriptions and a
sum of money. Loss of the pre-
scription and delay in getting
medicine worried. Mrs. Moore as
much as loss of the money.
Among her benefactors follow-
ing her loss, Mrs. Moore reported,
were Mesdames Carl Johnson, Jim
Harris, Carl Swenson, Will Grif-
fin, Arville Johnson, Dessa Dis-
mukes, Dorris Stach and Ernest
Sowell; also Misses Hattie and
Birdie Truitt and Miss Esther
Lundgren.
Mrs. Moore also received Moth-
ers Day gifts from IMrs. John Ur-
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NAVASOTA COPS
23-A BASEBALL
“CHAMPIONSHIP
The District 23-A baseball sea-
con has ended and defending
champion Elgin isn’t the champ-
ion anymore. That is not news, of
course, but the matter was made
official this week when Navasota
Qvas declared the 1951 kingpin.
In a District circular letter re-
ceived by Supt. Coffman it was
stated that unless Elgin had an
objective to enter, Navasota
would be declared the official
champion. With four losses in 10
district games, two of them to
the Rattlers, Elgin had no object-
ons.
k The Wildcats closed out their
season’s play on the high school
( (practice diamond last Thursday
afternoon by bowing to Bellville,
2 to 1. Both the Brahma runs
were unearned. Elgin loaded the
bases in the fourth frame with
only one out, but was unable to
gnch across a run.
The loss left Elgin mired deeply
in third place in the six-team cir-
cuit. Navasota cinched the title
I last week-end by beating Bellville,
। gving the Rattlers nine victories
1 against a single loss. Bellville fin-
| ashed second with eight wins and
I two defeats. Both clubs defeated
1 Egin twice in season play, and
I aM four Elgin losses were by the
■ heart-breaking margin on only
" one run.
At a public forum Monday
night attended by some 75 teach-
ers, board members, parents and
taxpayers of the Elgin Independ-
ent School District, proponents of
a 50-cent school tax hike got
down to specifics after an hour of
discussion and signed a petition
calling for an election on that
issue. With 38 signatures on the
petition, however, the School
Board deferred action in a spec-
ial session held immediately after-
wards and did not set the election
date, though only 20 signatures
are required to make such an
election imperative.
Presumably the board will have
to set an election date when ft
convenes for its next regular met-
isg on June 4. The petition reads-
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The millionth stockholder of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company—the only business
in the United States to achieve such a broad democracy of ownership—is represented by Mr and Mrs
Brady Denton of Saginaw, Michigan, who jointly own seven shares of stock. Denton, an automobile
salesman, and his wife Dorothy and two of their three boys are shown during a visit to their local
telephone exchange. According to C. L. Carson, manager of the Bell Telephone office in Elgin one
family out of 45 in the U. S. now own stock in the Bell System. The company has spent $103,445 in
Elgin since the end of the war, he points out.
000 in additional annual revenue.
A simple majority vote would be
sufficient to hike the tax.
Opposing Argument
Opponents to the tax hike at
Monday night’s session argued
that (1) increased taxes would
discourage new industries from
locating in the Elgin area, (2) an
added tax burden is not fair to
outlying districts which were re-
cently incorporated into the Elgin
system with resultant tax increas-
es at the time, (3) a tax hike
might be necessary but the school
system could do on a smaller in-
come, and (4) one of the prob-
lems of America today is the in-
creasing tax burden, which Elgin
ought to stave off as long as pos-
sible.
Proponents fired back that the
school system was barely. operate
ing on the present tax structure,
that buildings and equipment
were antiquated, that the elemen-
tary and Negro schools were in-
adequate and overcrowded, that
the longer action was postponed
the more drastic it would have
to be when taken. They cited the
fact that the elementary school
was now 53 years old, while the
Negro school did not even have
sanitary toilets, let alone proper
classroom equipment. Quoting tax
figures of other school districts in
the Central Texas area, they
showed that Elgin received less
tax income per student than any
district in the area, that the basic
tax structure had not been altered
in 20 years while the cost of op-
erating had almost doubled in that
time. They said there was a def-
inite possibility that Elgin would
lose its affiliation under the Gil-
mer-Aiken law if steps were not
taken soon.
Bond Issue
A good portion of the meeting
was given to discussion of a bond
issue which would allow additional
construction to replace antiquat-
ed buildings and relieve class-
room congestion. A representa-
tive of the Rauscher-Pierce Bond
Company from its Austin office
told the audience that under pre-
sent conditions the Elgin school
district could issue bonds not to
exceed $165,000 for repairs and
construction. He said that these
bonds could be retired over a per-
iod of 30 years with an addition-
al 15 cents on the tax dollar and
that his company would “buy
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