The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1956 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME 67
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956
NUMBER 38
Democratic Run-Off
Primary Saturday
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Lee County Declared
Drought Disaster Area
Autos Collide
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cordially invited to attend these
services nightly at 7:45.
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BUFF KICK-OFF BARBECUE
TO BE TUESDAY, AUG. 28
Everything is set for the an-
nual Buffalo Club's Barbecue
Tuesday night, Aug 28. accord-
ing to Monroe Hannes, presi-
dent of the club.
Tickets will be on sale at
both banks and will be sold by
the Ticket Committee.
stop in for a visit and also for
fast service on any needs for
your car.
Mr. Hoffman has taken over
the bulk station formerly oper-
ated by Rudy Weigelt.
The station will be known as
the 290 Magnolia Station.
REV. MUELLER SUBMITS
TO SURGERY AUG. 17
The Rev. Wm. Mueller
Magnolia Station Has
New Management
New owners of the former
Hoffman Magnolia Station are
Walter Vahrenkamp and Juan
Lincoln Walther
League Presents Play
The St. John's Walther Lea-
gue. Lincoln, extends a cordial
invitation to everyone to at-
tend the presentationof a three
act comedy, "Wake Up Folks”
by G. L Wind, along with other
entertainment in the community
Hall in Lincoln on August 26.
Stands will be open at 7 PM
and the program is to begin at
8 PM. A free-will offering will
be taken.
GIDDINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 4
Supt. Don B. Slocomb an-
nounced the school opening for
Tuesday, Sept. 4. Ho ‘also an-
nounced the faculty as nearly
complete, the position of one
additional homemaking teacher
atjll being vacant.
ing south on North Main
Highway 77.
The accident happened
Farm Bureau Slates
District Queen Contest
The date of the District
Queen Contest of the Farm Bu-
reau has been set for Sept. 6.
1956.
Bill Pieratt, president of the
Farm Bureau, made this an-
nouncement today.
Names of the entries for the
contest and other details will
be announced next week, .Mr.
Remit Meted.---------
Giddings submitted to a major
operatiomatSt. Jude -Hospita
in Brenham Friday night, Aug.
17. According to present re-
ports he is recovering nicely.
Best wishes for a speedy
recovery are extended by his
many friends.
Ledbetter Fireboys
Set Annual Barbecue
By A. H. Bloom
The Ledbetter Fireboys will
have their annual barbecue
Sunday, Sept. 9 to which every-
body is cordially invited.
Ledbetter has a very efficient
Fire Department to which the
town points with pride. They
have one truck completely
equipped for fire fighting. This
truck has a 750 gallon tank to
carry water for fighting grass
fires and other fires.
Several weeks ago the boys
extinquished a fire in a new
1956 Mercury on Highway 290
one mile west of Ledbetter.
T. M. Vanderwerth, better
known as “Buddie” is fire chief.
Ira Lehmann is president and
KennethBlume secretary-treas-
urer.
They are having their annual
Firemen’s estival at Firemen’s
Hall on Seeptember 9. There
will be a ball game at 3 PM,
Greenvine vs. Ledbetter.
A barbecue supper will be
served beginning at 6 PM. They
will also have Bingo and other
entertainment with a dance at
night. Music for the dance will
be furnished by Gus Linder-
mann orchestra.
The fire boys will have plenty
of ice cold water to keep any-
one from getting overheated.
The ice water will be served
free of course.
Swimming awards will be
presented by the Giddings Ro-
tary Club to over 80 young
people this Friday night, Aug-
gust 24. The names of those
who will deceive them were
published in this paper last
week.
The ceremonies will take
place at the Immanuel Luth-
eran Church lawn and are
scheduled to begin at 7:30 p. m.
The public is urged to attend.
Opening remarks will be
made by Emmett Hannes, who
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Johnnie Lee Penny of Rt. 1,
Lincoln, 19 year old negro,
driving a 1946 Ford sedan, hit
a 1955 Oldsmobile sedan driven
by Mervel Delton Crump, 35,
of Tyler, Texas who was driv-
Run-Off Election
Party Saturday Nite
The County Chairman, D. F.
Wade, has announced that an
Election Party will be held on
the Court House Square, Sa-
turday night. Aug. 25 starting
at 8 p. m.
As election returns are re-
ceived, they will be posted on
the black board and results an-
nounced over the loud speaker.
for assistance in purchasing
grain for livestock. Farmers
who are approved by the FHA
Committee for assistance under
the program will receive pur-
chase orders issued to them by
the ASC Committe for $1.00
per cwt. for 100% grain — .75
per cwt. for 75% grain — .60
per cwt. for 60% grain pur-
chased through eligible dealers.
Another advantage to Lee
County farmers under the pro-
gram is that those farmers who
have signed Soil Bank Acrage
Reserve Agreements may now
graze these designated acres
through Sept. 30, 1956. Hereto-
fore grazing on Acreage Re-
serve land was prohibited.
Farmers desiring to make
applications under the Emer-
gency Feed Program should
come to the ASC office to make
their application.
There is no information at
this time on hay and roughage
under the Emergency Feed
Program.
REVIVAL AT BEAT FIVE
A Revival will begin at the
Beat Five Assembly of God
Church Aug 26 Rev. Henry D.
Vincent of Caldwell, Texas will
Independence and Main streets
near Witte’s gin Saturday
evening at 8 o’clock.
Penny, who suffered head
injuries, was first taken to the
hospital for treatment and
then placed in jail charged with
driving while intoxicated and
making a too wide left turn.
Mr. Crump, who had his fa-
mily in the car, escaped in-
juries, although his car damag-
es amounted to $250.00. The
damages to Penny’s car was
$200.00.
The accident was investigat-
ed by Rudi Simon, city marshal.
The Democratic Run-Off Pri-
mary will be held Saturday,
Aug. 25, 1956 at all regular
voting places in Lee County
except one.
The voting place for the run-
off election for Aug. 25 at Lin-
coln, Texas, has been moved
from the Community Hall to
the Allen Joiner residence. This
was made necessary because
the Community Hall has been
Lee County has been de-
clared a drought disaster area
thereby making Lee County
farmers eligible for certain
benefits under the Drought
Emergency Feed Program.
Under this program eligible
farmers can make application
engaged for that day, accord-
ing to Gerhard Schiwart, chair-
man of Precinct No. 13.
Only a few races will have
to be decided. .
For Governor the voters
have to decide between Price
Daniel and Ralph Yarborough.
For Lieut. Governor, Mr. Ai-
kin has withdrawn, so this
leaves only Ben Ramsey on the
ticket.
For Attorney General the
voters have the choice between
Tom Moore and Will Wilson.
In the county there is only
one contest, that of County
Commissioner of Preet. 1. The
two men on the ticket are C. E.
Keng and Monroe Zschech.
Although the ballot is short
the importance should not be
underestimated. Every voter
is therefore urged to do his or
her duty and Vote Saturday.
NOTICE
We are very sorry we did not
have space to publish all the
news items which you were so
kind to send this past week.
This being the last issue of
The News before the run-off
election on Saturday, Aug. 25,
many candidates used space
which otherwise could have
been used for news items, keep
up the good work, we will do
our best to publish your items
in the future.
The News Staff.
Cool Front
Brings Giddings
2.10 Inches Rain
Giddings received a very
beneficial rain early Monday
morning, which amounted to
2.10 of an inch, according to
the Post Office guage.
However the rain was not
general over Lee County. While
some communities reported 2.25
and higher, other places in the
county received only one half
to 6/10 of an inch. But what-
ever the quantity, every bit of
the rain was highly appreciat-
ed.
The rain, accompanied by
lightning and heavy thunder,
was of the slow type, every
drop soaking into the parched
ground.
Giddings had a light shower
Saturday evening amounting to
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The rain brought the season’s
first “norther” which broke
the heat at least temporarily.
Boone Jackson, new head
coach of the Giddings Buffaloes,
is a native of West Texas. He is
a graduate of Colorado City
High School and attended John
Tarleton College at Stephen-
ville. Texas.
Later he served in the Navy
for 4 years as Chief Petty Of-
ficer, and at that time was sta-
tioned at Corpus Christi. After
that he saw civil service as an
aircraft mechanic for 4 years.
He entered Baylor Univer-
sity, majoring in physical edu-
cation and graduated in 1953.
His first coaching position
was at Maybank near Dallas,
where he coached for one year.
After that he moved to Hemp-
stead where he coached the
Bobcats for 2 years. His team
registered 18 wins, 2 ties, and
2 losses. The Bobcats were re-
gional co-champs in 1955.
Mr. Jackson also coached dis-
trict and track. He married
Miss Florine Horne of Waco
and they have two children,
Scooter, age 11. and Randy, 10.
The family lives in Droemer’s
duplex apartment. They will
attend the Methodist1, Church.
They like Giddings fine.
Besides football coach and
| track, Mr. Jackson teaches
math, and physical education.
The new coach announced
football practice to open Mon-
day, Aug. 27 at 7 a. m. Evening
practice at 7 p. m.
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be the evangelist Everybody is Eonzales: They invite you to
will act as master of ceremon-
ies. A film will be shown con-
cerning swimming. Musical
numbers will be presented by
a vocal quartet. A presentation
to Mrs. Joe Pfeiffer, who was
in charge of the swimming in-
struction will be followed by
the presentation to the swim-
mers of their certificates.
The program will be conclud-
ed by a short add res by Ken- _
neth Hoover, manager of the
Giddings Chamber of Com-
merce.
Baptist Church
To Have Revival
Revival services will begin
at the First Baptist Church of
Giddings on Sunday morning,
Aug 26 These services will
continue through Tuesday even-
ing, Sept. 4
The evangelist for the meet-
ing will be Rev. John Archie
Mel ve r. of the staff of South-
western Baptist Theological
Seminary in Ft. Wort. The Rev.
McIver is Director of the office
of Student Employment and
Mission Activities
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Lee County. His father, Arch
McIver, was a life-long resident
of Lee Co. Rev. McIver was
born on String Prairie, be-
, tween Lexngton and Dime Bog.
He spent all his early days,
through his young manhood,
in this county.
Rev. McIver will preach Sun-
day morning, Aug. 26 at the
eleven o’clock worship hour,
and then at the evening wor-
ship service beginning at 8 pm.
Services will be held at 8 p.m.
each evening throughout the re-
maining days of the revival. ■
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