The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1954 Page: 1 of 16
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“They do not serve who stand and wait for somebody to help them."
Devoted to Community Service Since 1888
Lee County's Oldest Business Institution
Price: 10 Cents
Vol. 66. No. 5
Giddings, Lee County, Texas, Thursday, January 7, 1954
Kusical Concert
cheduled Here
M
te Bank
Accident on Highway Closes Bridge
if New Year’s Eve
The B
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Bank of
Farm Bureau to Meet
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Bridge Damaged by Collision, Fire
IMMANUEL LUTH. WALTHER LEAGUES
COP FIRST IN STATE CAGE TOURNEY
DR. WALTER HODGSON
Accompanies NTSC Ensemble
was demoli:
es Reat, the
in Raabe J
on
1953
that
Oil Transport in 3-Way Crash
Damages Yegua Bridge; 1 Hurt
953,
wed
closed
1953.
with a
caused 1
$100 the
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contact
and
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meeting
purpox
— Democi
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had •
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Lee County Bank Deposits Reach
All-Time High Near $6 Million
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A spectacular three-vehicle 1
llison on New Year’s Eve on h
. Middle, Yegua bridge, five s
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river, re
outhbour
collide.
the second quarter the Houston
team went ahead, and stayed
ahead until the final moments
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Court The novas packed with ex-
y m citement com the outset the
Demo-iteams played on par. Early in
timer dunir
pper teeth. He was rushed to J.
ee Memorial Hospital in Gid- at
and the
separated
tled free
port truck
FLee Court
. soared to al..
: Dec. 31,106
a port of Noe
banks foll
—-state bank r
of business
d The de.
Non this can.
bove themes
i ed a yea: ..
- The late
" ceed the de
33, reported
siness on ot:
date of th.
$82,769 86
- The Fir:
s-Giddingsrr/a
, $205,332 61
— year ove:
bank reen,
—indep- •
— close of t ..:
- 1953 wher
fallen bel w
mark at $0 4
The Cru
Gidding
by $4 12
—21 on :
636 76
on I)
State B.:
miles south of Lexington
Highway 77, closed out
Giddings Motor Co.
Shows New ‘54 Ford
New Ford cars and trucks for
1954 went on display in Ford
dealers’ show rooms across the
country Wednesday, Jan 6.
The new Ford is being shown
locally at C. W. Fields’ Giddings
Motor Co.
The wee County Farm Bureau tor beans in 1954.....This meet-
calling a meeting for all peo- ling will be held at the Lincoln -
. interested in cotton and cas- Community Hall Tuesday night.
• theage of 18
ed in the welfare
. and country are
and
Year’s morning —-.--
The driver of the Robertson 1.: 1 Kuehn : vety ill in
Transport truck. I, J Edwards, Lee Memorial Hospital His
escaped without injury. The friends wish him a speedy re-
ttan port truck was a total loss Covery
The transport truck demo-: -
amount of deposits
ington bank during
of 1953 was due
fact that
Rewards’succeeded to avoid
e Reat vehicle but received
le full impact of the cattle
uck behind his own cab.
The wheels under the trailer
it of the transport were rip-
d from the trailer with all
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raging inferno
Head March o’ Dimes
Judge M. F. Kieke will be
chairman of the March of
Dimes, in Lee County and Mrs.
M Y Tate the ghairman of
the Mother’s March.
Both chairmen are active in -
organizing the campaign which
is due to get underway within
the next week
lings and released on New
or genera
Manheim Club Meets
The Manheim 4-H Club met
Dec. 17, opening with the 4-11
Hledgesand prayer.
Roll call showed that five
members were absent.
County Agent Brown ( Spi-
vey then distributed pamphlets
to the officers and books to be
filled out. At the end of the year
the boy with the best percentage
will receive a prize
Mr. Spivey gave a talk on
care of the tractor and discussed
the cause of cattle grubs.
The game’s out-
troun a low of $720,577 71 on
June 30. 1953 in the Lexington
bank
was sheared off by the diesel
transport when the driver,
L . Edwards, attempted to
I avoid the collision with the
i 1953 Ford and the cattle
truck going south on the
| bridge.
—Polaroid 1-Minute Photo.
Thepentire
wiped reb
onents The
inner ved the Houston
lowever, by missing a
ercentage of their free
ir wasddetermined by a free
w by Virgil Mutschink in
last two seconds of the game
ages estimated near
and dollars.
occupants of the
les miraculously es-
h when a transport
d with 5045 gallons
el broke into flames
for 212 hours until
| The trailer of the cattle truck
| blocked the bridge just clear
of the fire that consumed the
diesel fuel in the transport on
the Middle Yegua bridge on
" Highway 77 south of Lexing-
ton New Year’s Eve. The
concrete railing of the bridge
ipper lip and
ise all of his
/. Raymond Bethike, a
I Vahrenkamp Char
and Raymond Beth
excorng in theofi
lie generated such
at that the steel
---------------------Jan. 12, at 7:30.
Speaks Here Sunday . The two important crops will
be discussed. First, how the cot-
Milton Bierschwale, a student ton acres for the individual
it the Austin Presbyterian farmer were figured, and sec-
Theological Seminary wil ond. the 1954 castor bean pro-
bring the.....message at the Gid-gram
dings and Dime Boy Presbyteri- Everyone is invited to be
an ( hurches Sunday mornings present by Bill Pieratt; presi-
10 Services are theduledident of the Bureau.
a. m at the Giddings _
Polaroid 1-Minute Photo
by D L. Fuchs
people miraculously escaped
death and serious injury in a
two truck-car collison. The
fire burned for over two
the game which climaxed
evening the Immanuel
squeezed by the Trinity
tent occured about
31, when a cattle
n by Marion Dell
meta and owned byl
m Truck Co of that:
to a 1953 Ford Se-T
by Charles Reat of
and then collided
esel transport The
was bound south on
‘ following the Reat
the transport was
en by L J Edwards and was
ne of the fleet of trucks used
y the Robertson Transport Co
f Bay City for hauling diesel
uel to the Alcoa plant south of
First State Bank of Dime
increased its deposits by
1 71 from $358,302.36 on
it on Dec 31, 1952, to
84 09 on Dec. 31, 1953.
• latest figure on deposit
Dime Box bank are
4 46 lower than the de-
in that bank on Sept 30,
I’mnal quarter The team consist
ed of Mvion Schneider. Charle
Moribe Edwin Biar. Buddy
travelers, swelled by local
residents, viewed the huge
billow of smoke that rose
above the raging diesel fire
on the Middle Yegua bridge
near Lexington when four
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1954, newspaper, January 7, 1954; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1615504/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.