The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1957 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME 68
NUMBER 39
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ing season is over.
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Mission Services
Treet located on Highway 77. family night on Sept. 23, 1957
They wish to extend an invita-
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for the English service at 7:30 Zeulenroda, Germany on Aug.
p. m. will be the Rev. A. Arndt 3, 1957. He reached the age of
Giddings Routes
Reduced to Three
Plans Underway For First
Stock Show And Posse Rodeo
Pop’s Corner
by Pop Aschenbeck
Mission Festival Sun.
At Greens Creek
Postmaster.
There are 4 rural routes out
TROOP CHARTER RENEWAL
Scout Troop 143 of Immanu-
el Lutheran Church will have a
will also be present
All Scouts should also come
to the Scout meeting Monday
night, Sept. 9, in uniforms.
Lyle K. Searcey
Searcy Named
For Buff Football Lineup
Turn to Page 8
fecting all of us at this time,
other than our National Secu-
rity. If our land is to prosper
and we are to hold sacred the
“moral trust" that we owe to
those who come after us, and
are required to make their liv-
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Frosty Treet Has
New Manager
. Automobiles Collide
Office,
At Intersection
Manager of New M G| B ff q t Rockdale
Processing Plant ----5 T * F sh--
ducts and farm supplies
sold
rules and regulations for the
show'. All livestock must be in
place by 8 a. m. Friday, Oct. 18,
the first day of the show and
will be released at 7 p.m. Oct.
School Term Begins
The Giddings Independent
School and the Immanuel’ Lu-
theran parochial school began
their fall term this wek.
Pupils enrolled in the paro-
chial school numbered 163. In
the public school (white) there
will be awarded to the adults.
The Junior division is open to
Lee County 4-H and FFA only.
The Livestock Committee met
Tuesday night and approved
at 7:30 All Scouts will be in
The parade committee would
like everyone that possibly can
to take part in the parade. Dan
Durow, chairman of the parade
committee, will send out entry
blanks within the next few
Mission Festival
Sunday at Manheim
The armual Mission Festival
at Ebenezer Lutheran Church
of Manheim will be held Sun-
day, Sept. 8.
The guest speaker for the
9 a. m. service will be Dr. Geo.
J. Beto, President of Lutheran
Concordia College at Austin.
In the afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
the Rev. F H. Stelzer of Thorn-
dale will preach in the German
language.
Sunday School on Sept. 8 will
be held after the 9 a.m. service.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend these services.
assistants, Truett Mobley and
Carl Andress, who held two
drills with the boys each day,
The annual mission festival
of Bethany Lutheran Church
at Greens Creek will be observ-
ed Sunday, Sept. 8 with two
services.
In the German service at
nine o’clock in the morning the
Rev. Walter Streicher of Win-
chester will preach. Speaker
the local post office of
Loebau Church Sets i change
Gasoline Pumps
Checked in County
One out of three gasoline
pumps checked recently in Lee
County were putting out less
than the indicated measure-
ment. Agriculture Commission-
of the Giddings Post
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Harzke
have taken over the Frosty
operated the Frosty Treet
prior to moving to Elgin early
in 1957. Marie says to watch
this paper for future specials.
register after the cotton pick- er John C. White reported.
Thirty gasoline pumps were
On Sunday, Sept. 8, Christ
Lutheran Church of Loebau
will observe its 'annual mission
Sunday Two services will be
held
7 The speaker for the morning
service will be the Rev. Walter
Streicher of Winchester. This
service is in the German lan-
guage and begins at 10:30. The
Rev. Max Studtmann of Gid-
dings will bring the mission
message at 3 p. m.
You are cordially invited to
attend these services.
Effective Sept 30, 1957 Fred
J McKeown, rural carrier of
Rout 1. will retire after 50
years of service, according, to
Mrs Maggie Bobo, Giddings
SIMON’S FATHER DIES
Word was received by Rudi
Simon, City Marshal, that his
father, Franz. Simon, died in
there will be only 3 routes;
route 4 will be absorbed by
routes 2 and 3.
The carriers for the three
routes will be as follows: Wise
T McKeown, Rt 1; John T.
Longley, Rt 2. and Robert E.
Fariss, Rt 3
It is the policy of the Post
a Office Department, whenever a
many small dams, ter races and route is left vacant, to consoli-
other means of checking ero- date routes wherever practical,
sion of that great gift of God All patrons of route 4 have
• to Man, our soil. been notified by a letter from
The Giddings Independent
School District consolidated
many of the adjoining common
school districts several years
ago. The students from such
districts are transported daily
to and from school by busses
owned by the Independent Dis-
trict.
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ing from the soil, we will need
Veteran Poultry man Lyle K.
Searcey has been, named man-
ager of the new M-G Poultry
Processing Plant which is now
nearing completion at Weimar,
Marvin Gilbreath, president of
M-G, Inc. announced this week.
With Swift & Co. for 23
years, Searcey has experience
in all aspects of production,
procurement and processing
and has an extensive back-
ground in sales and sales pro-
motion.
“We art fortunate to have a
man of his experience to head
our modern, new processing
operation," Gilbreath said.
“When our new plant is open,
we will process 2400 broilers
per hour.”
Other M-G facilities include
a feed mill, an egg division and
a retail store where M-G pro-
drop by and see them. I parents with them.
Mrs. Harzke has been em- Norton Curry from the Ca-
ployed in this type of business pitol Area office will be pre-
fer many years n Giddings, and
The opening a t Rockdale
brings back memories of 1951
The Buffs of that year opened
the season at Rockdale by de-
feating them 33-0 and con-
tinued their winning spree un-
til they had won 15 straight
games and the Class A State
Championship.
Of course, Rockdale has a
much stronger team now than
in 1951, and are picked to
finish first in their district.
The cheerleaders and the
GHS band will accompany the
team to Rockdale and the many
loyal Giddings fans who feel
confident that the 1957 Buffa-
loes will play their best all
the way.
The Steering Committee, un-
der the leadership of Hershel
Doyle, has set up $600 to be
used as prizes for the Junior
show. Adults have been invited
to show cattle from counties 19, the last day of the show,
adjoining Lee County. Ribbons
k ,i,
For Season Opener
The Giddings Buffaloes will report them in good shape for
play their first 1957 football the first encounter.
Russ Morgan to Play
At La Grange Dance
Russ Morgan and His Music
in the Morgan Manner will be
at the La Grange Fair Pavi-
lion on Thursday, Sept. 12 for
a big dance Admission will be
$3 00 per person and tickets
must be purchased in advance I
at the Cottonwood Inn Restau-
rant in La Grange in order to
make table reservations.
Like for most orchestra lead-
ers, Russ Morgan’s success was
not by any means an overnight
deal, for this top-notch enter-
tainer. as this brief summary
will show:
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AM AGAIN reminding you
of the Annual Firemen’s festi-
val at Ledhetter next Sunday,
the 8th. A delicious beef bar-
becue supper will be served at
6 p.m. by the Fire Boys, with
all of the trimmings, plenty of
entertainment during the after-
noon and a big dance with Gus
Lindermann and his Orchestra
furnishing the music at night.
You can be sure that if it is
at Ledbetter, you will have a
good time, and be well enter-
tained . . . and then too, the
boys need the money for the
maintenance of their fire fight-
ing equipment. This is their
only means of obtaining the
necessary funds, for the protec-
tion of the property of the
community
checked in the Giddings area
by a State Agriculture Depart-
ment Weights and Measures in-
spector. White said. Nineteen,
of the pumps were accurate,
while eleven were condemned
for repairs, the commissioner
reported.
Ten “minus’’ measurements
and one “plus” were discovered
in the inspections. White said.
Service station operators
have made the necessary ad-
justments. Commissioner White
commended the businessmen
for their cooperation with the
inspectors.
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sent. All troop committeemen
were 240 pupils on the roll of
the high school and 277 in the
elementary department. This is
a loss of 30 pupils over last
year’s enrollment.
In the colored school the di-
vision was 66 in the high
school and 139 in the elemen-
tary grades. Approximately 13
more students are expected to
tion to their many friends to their uniforms and bring their
OUR LIKABLE and prosper-
ous dry goods merchant, Bill
Pratho, was all in smiles the
other day, during the “coffee
break.” Asking him the occa-
sion for his happiness, he ans-
wered “Well, business is off
this fall, there isn’t too much
work to do now. and there is a
little time for hunting and fish-
ing, as well as mending the back
fence that I have been promis-
ing Lillian I would fix for her
the past four years. With good
I health, good friends and a good
town to live in, why shouldn’t
anyone be happy?”
I think that Bill has some-
thing in his philosophy of life,
and if we would follow it, I am
sure that happiness would be
ours.
THE .WEST YEGU Water-
shed meeting of land owners
along the watershed and other
interested citizens, has been
postponed from Sept 9 to the
16 at 8 pm at the Lincoln
Community Club Members of
the State Soil Conservation
Board will Im* present to ex-
plain just what can be had un-
der the small dam program.- .
Soil and water conservation
is the most vital problem af-
Mrs. Jack Combs of Bay-
town, driving a 1954 Tudor
Oldsmobile, ran a red light and
collided with a 1947 Plymouth
sedan driven by Gerhard Kos-
lan.
Koslan was driving south on
Highway 77 while Mrs. Combs
was driving west on Austin St.
City Marshal Simon, who re-
ported the accident, estimated
damage to the Oldsmobile at
about $200.00.
The accident happened Sun-
day about 5:30 p.m.’ Charges
were filed against Mrs. Combs
for not stopping for traffic sig-
nal
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1957
game at Rokdale Friday night.
Coach Boone Jackson and his
days. Mrs. Tommy Alexander
will send out entry blanks to
all school children.
Anyone that does not get an
entry blank and would like to
participate in the parade should
contact Dan Durow at the Citi-
zens State Bank in Giddings.
The Lee County Sheriffs Pos-
se met Tuesday night to plan
for the coming rodeo and par-
ade. They agreed to accept an P
invitation from the Travis
County Posse and take part in
their parade in Austin on Sept.
19. At the same time four men
were selected to appear on the
Lee County Agent’s television
program on Sept. 13. They are
Charlie Giesber, J. V. Elliott,
Nat Walton and Hershel Doyle.
In addition Dan Durow,
chairman of the parade com-
mittee plans to be on this TV
program. Dan will tell the
viewers about the coming par-
ade and at the same time show’
some pictures made by Brown
O. Spivey of the past parades
in Giddings.
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