The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1957 Page: 1 of 20
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Lee County 3 Leading Newspaper - First in News, Advertising, and Community Service - Since 1888
NUMBER 52
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS,
VOLUME 68
Immanuel To Present Pageant
December 8, 9 & 10
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Giddings To Honor ’57
Football Team Dec. 23
THIRD SERIES
POLIO SHOTS
Eggs, per doz.
Hens, per lb.
15c
5c
47c
J. H. (Harrell) WEST
New Farm Bureau Head
GHS Band Concert
Scheduled for Dec. 20
Pop’s Corner
by Pop Aschenbeck
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Old Roosters, per lb.
Cream
Pecans, per lb.
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Knobbs Community:
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The Giddings Market
Wednesday, Dec. 4
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Eligible voters are reminded
of the Cotton Marketing Quota
Referendum to be held Decem-
ber 10, 1957. Polls will be open
from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. in
the voting places .listed below:
Giddings Community:
A S. C. Office
Dime Box Community:
Old Barber Shop
Lexington Community:
Lexington State Bank
Lincoln Community:
Lincoln Community Hall
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Cotton Marketing
Quota Referendum
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FIRE AT DAIRY MART
The fireboys were called out
to the Dairy Mart where the
grill caused trouble. The fire
was put out promptly without
causing any damage.
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FUNERAL HOME
SEING REMODELED
Phillips and Luckey Funeral
Home in Giddings is being re-
modelled. The front porch has
a new concrete floor and the
sides of the building will be
asbestos siding.
M&M Contractors are doing
the work.
the process of being harvested.
WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED
with dry weather" for the past
several days and many of our
friends have been busy harvest-
ing their peanuts and other
crops. It is heped that the wea-
ther will continue for several
weeks as much of the cash farm
crop is still in the ground or in
ALL OF THEM ask that you
come by and compare their
merchandise and costs with any
other anywhere, and we want
to remind you, that through
your patronage they grow, and
as Giddings grows, you grow.
YOU WILL FIND beautiful
merchandise advertised in this
issue, as well as in other issues
of The News, which is only a
small percentage of what is in
store for you when you visit
your local merchant.
CHRISTMAS is just around
the corner. In fact there are
just 17 more shopping days
left until Ole St. Nick with his
little red and white uit, black
boots, reindeers and sleigh, led
by Rudolph, will be coming
down our chimneys with his
loads of presents for all of our
good little girls and boys.
DICK TOLER nd his city
boys have decorated our town
with all kinds of lights, cover-
ings of differentcolors for our
street lamps ail has marked
the way, come rain, snow or
fog, that Santa just can’t miss
seeing us.
OUR MERCHANTS have
stocked their stores to the ceil-
ing with every kind and type
of merchandise and gadgets
that you could wish for, at a
cost so low that they have no
competition from any other
source, be some town, city or
mail order catalogue Each of
them have contributed to mak-
ing Giddings a better town,
during the past years, and will
so contribute in the future.
OUR FRIENDS at the Citi-
zens State Bank have caught
the Christmas Spirit early, and
are having the inside of the
bank repainted and redecorat-
IMMANUEL Lutheran Church
has set the evenings of the 8,
9 and 10 of Dec. for its pageant
at 7:30. We are all invited to
be with them and partake of
an evening of religious and
friendly fellowship at the High
School gymnasium.
WE WERE SADDENED to
learn of the death of our old
friend, Paul Eichler, who was
buried a Dime Box Tuesday af-
ternoon. Paul has been in ill
health for quite a while and
died in a" hospital in Houston.
He will be missed by all of us
who knew him, and we extend
heartfelt sympathy to the fa-
THE STYLE SHOW put on
by Leonard’s and Margaret’s
was one of the outstanding
events of the year. The stage
was beautifully decorated, in
bright colors, bringing out the
Christmas Spirit. There were
approximately 500 who attend-
ed this event, with about 85
people in the show. You never
saw a better shylc show and
Mr. and Mrs Kriegel and their
associates are to be compli-
mented on bringing this to our
city. We call your attention to
their ads in this issue of The
News and hope that you will
pay them a visit.
Everyone is invited to wit-
ness the annual Christmas
Pageant which will be present-
SO WHY NOT make this
Christmas a Buy at Home
Christmas If you do you can’t
lose for winning
WE WERE SHOCKED and
grieved to learn of the illness
of our friend and neighbor, Mr.
G. H Fritsche, who suffered a
heart attack on Monday. Mr.
Fritsche is in the Lee Memorial
Hospital in a serious condition.
We wish for him a speedy re-
covery.
Herbert Walthers, president
of the Giddings Buffalo Club,
today announced plans for a
gridiron banquet honoring Gid-
dings’ Buffaloes on their out-
standing achievements during
the past season.
Monday, December 23 has
been set for the festivities
which will be held at the high
school gymnasium starting at
WACO—(Spl)—J, H. (Har- American free enterprise syst-
rell) West, 57, the new presi-। tem.
dent of the Texas Farm Bureau! a share-cropper when he
is a strong believer in the op-[started farming 34 years ago,
portunities offered by the West now is a successful farm-
er who lives on his own pro-
Mrs. Milton Tate, Lee Coun-
ty Chairman, National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis,
announced this week that the
third series of polio shots will
be given at the welfare office
on Saturday Dec. 7 from one
to five p. m.
In Dime Box the shots will
be given on Dec. 14 in the
morning and in Lexington on
the 14th in the afternoon.
ductive and well-run farm a
short distance east of Bishop in
Nueces County.
West succeeded J. Walter
Hammond, 69, of Tye, Taylor
County, as president of the
state’s largest farm organiza-
tion Nov.20 following the an-
nual meeting in Dallas. Both
men have been leaders in Farm
Bureau for the past two de-
cades, with Hammond serving
as president for 18 years.
The new president was born
in March, 1900, in Grandview,
Johnson County. He attended
public schools there, leceiving
his high school diploma in 1918.
He studied at a Fort Worth bu-
siness college and attended
Baylor University.
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POST OFFICE TO CLOSE
SATURDAY AFTERNOONS
Beginning January 4, 1958
the Post Office at Giddings will
close each Saturday at 12 noon,
by order of the Post Office De-
partment.
Mrs. J. Nations of Austin
was here Tuesday on a visit
The Giddings High Schqol
Band has scheduled a concert
for Friday, Dec. 20, according
to Everett Schmidt, director.
The Choir Concert was
changed from Monday, Dec. 2
to Monday, Dec. 16.
Mr. Schmidt also announced
that the performance of
“Messiah" was set for Dec. 22
in’the evening.
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 9, and 10 at
the Giddings High School gym-
nasium, at 7:30 p. m.
The pagenat, “Christ the Sa-
vior is Born," was written by
the Rev. Max Studtmann, pas-
tor of Immanuel Lutheran
Church, Giddings. It features
the Old and New Testament
prophecies and fulfillments re-
lated to the birth of Christ.
Approximately fifty characters
will portray the famous char-
acters of the Bible.
Participating in the pageant
will be the mmanuel Luther-
an School Choir under the di-
rection of Mrs. Milton Schroe-
der and the Immanuel Lutheran
Mixed Choir, directed by John
J. Socha. Twenty-five musical
selections are used in the page-
ant, offering a variety of moods
and tempos of the Christmas
spirit.
Featured before the Pageant
will be a candlelight ceremony
in which the combined choirs
will participate- as they sing:
“Let us AU With Gladsome
Voice" and “Shepherds in the
Fields Abiding." -
The public is most cordially
invited to attend.
8 o’clock, ft is expected that a
capacity crowd will be on hand
to show the two-consecutive
District 22AA and Bi-District
champions that Giddings and
Lee County are justly proud of
“their boys.’
Banquet committee members
promise a luscious dinner fol-
lowed by a variety show which
.will include many hilarious
acts. Most of the talent will be
from the ranks of the GHS stu-
dent body.
Albert Schkade, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, co-
sponsors of the banquet,, indi-
cated that the program being
planned should appeal to all
citizens of the community as
well as to the members of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Tickets will be available at
both Giddings banks and at
the Giddings Drug Store.
Heading the sale of tickets will
be the charming cheerleaders
of GHS who have done such a
terrific job of keeping the
spirits of the players up for
every game all during the past
successful season.
Plan now to treat yourself
and that favorite one on your
Christmas list. Attend the
Gridiron Banquet!
N‘ Let us stand again
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K/d ...to witness
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4sVE6 in His presence
SeY-5 and His divine
1 PeXA love for all.
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