The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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Winchester.
County will cost an estimated $54,-
about the head.
X-rays and further examination |1500, and is part of $1,686,000 to
Amendments Carry
to be no broken bones but Ronnie’s
Giddings Smothers Smithville 69 to 0
E. Lex’ton .... 23 16 36 3 26 13
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Buffs Meet Elgin Friday
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The Giddings Buffaloes travel to son against Le Grange's Leopards.
They were defeated by
Mr. Pratho and Mr. Osthoff are
but won over Burnet, Round Rock,
Caldwell, Granger, and Smithville, reported to be getting along nicely.
pas-
xa8
ractice
Telephone Rates Increased
In all, 145 families gave $6,640.67 their bills last week. G. M. Bren-
pool." What are you saying?
LIONS vs ROTARY BENEFIT GRID GAME NOV. 19
Holiday. Christmas
rvice
eral days earlier.
Holiday, Christmas
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the gauge at the post office.
Star Want Ads Get Results’
available for water duty.
The Lions expect to start a line
will be installed as pastor of Eb- tor at Ebenezer since June, 1957,
enezer Lutheran Church. Manheim, when the Rev. G. T. Naumann mov-
Sunday, Nov. 10 in a special .ser- ed to Pearsall.
Farm-Market Road to Winchester Is
Designated by Highway Commission
that the Rotarians would be lucky
to make a first down all night.
be spent during 1958 on farm to
market roads in District 14 in Cen-
ral Texas.
This road will be a part of the
Commission.
The Commission designated con-
struction of a farm-to-market road
program of $50 million approved
by the commission for the entire
state to build 1,252 miles of new
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday
nights, Dec. 8, 9, and 10, have
been set for the Annual Christmas
Pageant by the Cholrs of Imman-
uel Lutheran Church, the Rev. Max
And
Sizes
Studtmann announced this week.
Four major scenes will be fea-
tured; two from the Old Testament
and Two from the New Testament.
A special Candlelight procession
and recession is being adapted to
the music of "Let US All With
Gladsome Voice" and a descant se-
lection, "Shepherds in the Fields
Abiding."
Mrs. Rutir Gould will again serve
as organist.
The Giddings Buffaloes, scoring
50 points in the first half, tromped
to a 69 to 0 victory over the Smith-
sskull was fractured.
Ronnie was not wearing a Hall-
Serbin
Salem
Fedor
Knobbs
Ronnie appeared to be resting
better this week but Wednesday
morning still was in a coma, al-
though gaining in strength.
18 to
yd.
eight, 22, and 47 yards.
Alvin Hirsch scored twice and
passed to Fred Hannes for two
more touchdowns.
Longest run was by Jimmy Hill
who rambled for 82 yards.
Other scores were made by Bob-
Ronnie Spitzenberger, 9-year-old
twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Spitzenberger of Giddings, still was
unconscious in Lee Memorial Hos-
pital Wednesday morning but was
gaining strength after being struck
by a pickup truck last Thursday
night.
Ronnie was out walking with a
group of youngsters on Haflowe’en
enroute to a party, and was cross-
ing Highway 290 at the Manse
Street intersection in East Gidd-
ings when he was struck. The acc-
ident occurred at about 6:20 p. m.
near the Alvin Orsag residence.
The pickup truck, belonging to
Edwin Jaeger, local John Deere
Texarkana Mayor Visits
Mayor and Mrs. A. P. Mueller
and two daughters of Texarkana
visited in the home of Mayor Muel-
ler’s aunt, and great-uncle, Miss
Bertha and the Rev. Wm Mueller
on Tuesday.
AE3RS
Leeinkts
Next Value Day
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Next Value Day in Giddings will
HOLIDAY MONDAY
Next Monday, Nov. 11, Veterans'
Day, will be a holiday in Giddings
with business houses and govern-
ment offices closed for the day.
The Community Newspaper
With Community News
Written and Edited
Especially for Youl
Cotton Quota Vote
Is Set for Dec. 10
An Independent, Progressive
Hometown Newspaper
For a Progressing
City and Community
P-TA Meeting
Study Club Meets
be Tuesday, Nov. 19. Participating Dec. 25 -
roads that formerly were county
dirt roads.
A total of $20 million will be
spent to improve existing farm to
market roads and the remainder
will be for new construction under
a new two year farm to market
program with funds derived from
the fund established by the 51st
Legislature.
Dec. 8, 9, and 10 Set As
. Immanuel Pageant Dates
Giddings shares top spot in the
district standing with the Leopards.
Elgin defeated Smithville 33 to 0
but lost to La Grange’ll to 20 in
district play.
Giddings has won all its eight
games this season, defeating Rock-
dale, Luling, Schulenburg, Thrall,
A & M Consolidated, Bastrop, Col-
umbus and Smithville.
Elgin has won five and lost three
were pending an improvement in
his condition. Physicians and hos-
pital attendants have been work-
ing to keep his lungs clear. Mr.
Veterans’ Dance
Scheduled Sunday
The Giddings Post No. 4475 of
Veterans of Foreign Wars is spon-
soring a dance at Airline Hall Sun-
day, Nov. 10 with music by Blumes
Orchestra. Admission will be $1 per
person. The public is cordially in-
vited to attend.
agianst.
Complete but unofficial returns
from Lee County's 16 voting boxes
showed the following results:
Retirement Fund: 289 for; 143
against.
Pensions: 367 for; 68 against.
Water Bonds: 308 for; 121 a-
gainst, •
Voters turned out in small num-
bers, due partly to the bad wea-
ther Tuesday, as well as a lack
Elgin this Friday to engage the
Wildcats in a District 21-AA grid
battle.
Fresh from their 69 to 0 romp
over Smithville’s Tigers last week,
the Buffs will try to duplicate last
year's feat when they blaster El-
gin 34 to 0. The year before Gidd-
ings beat Elgin 12 to 6.
The Elgin game will be the pre-
lude to next week’s game of the sea-
P-TA to Meet Tues.
Nov. 12 at 3:30
The November P-TA meeting
will be held Tuesday, Nov. 12 at
3:30 p. m., in the High School Au-
ditorium.
The meeting will be opened with
a prayer by the Rev. Clifford Al- /
ford, pastor of the First Baptist
Church. /
There will be a panel discuss/
on "Guidance - A Partnersh)
The panel will be compose
John J. Socha, Mrs. R. A.
Mrs. R. J. Moore, Mrs. F
acke, and Fred Willard.
All patrons interested in the w. ;
fare of their school and children
are urged to attend.
The referendum on upland cotton
marketing quotas for the 1958 crop
will be held on Dec. 10, 1957.
All persons "Engaged in the pro-
duction’ of cotton on any farm in
1957 shall be eligible to vote in the
referendum.
The term "engaged in produc-I
tion" shall include any person who
would have shared in the crop as
landlord, tenant, or sharecropper,
due to participation in Soil Bank
or the preservation of the acreage
allotment If the husband is elig-
ible to vote, the wife, is eligible,
and vice versa.
Eligible voters will be voting on
whether or not they desire a mar-
keting quota on the 1958 crop of
upland cotton. The price support
level will be between 75 per cent
or 90 per cent of parity, if quotas
are approved, and price support
• level of cotton will drop to 50 per
cent of parity, if quotas arc dis-
approved. At least two thirds of
ville Tigers at Smithville Friday
night in a District 21-AA game.
The Buffs, passing and running
at will, scored 25 points in each of
the first two quarters. The score
was 63 to 0 at the end of the
third quarter. ,
Leading the scoring deluge was
Hugh Durrenberger, who went over
for three touchdowns on runs of
.87 INCH RAINFALL
Rainfall in Giddings Tuesday a- merchants will mail out a four-page
mounted to-87 inch, according to circular with special values sev- Dec. 26
ely to Lee Memorial Hospital. He .
was apparently seriously injured This four mile section in Lee
Legion Aux. to Meet
The American Legion Auxil-
iary, York Post No. 276, will meet
Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p. m.
in the home of Mrs. Irene Wend-
ler for a business meeting and
game party.
Mrs. Emilie Placke, pres.
costs of operations that are beyond
our control."
Rates (all per month) effective
Oct. 26 are $5.75 for business one
party, $5 for business two party,
$1,50 fur business extension: 33.25
for residence one party, $2.75 for
residence two party, $1 for residen
ce extension. These rates do not
include 10 per uent federal excise
tax.
The telephone company plans to
move the telephone office from its
present location to a new loca-
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Paul J. Pratho who submitted
to surgery at Lee Memorial Hos-
pital Oct. 25 and Ted Osthoff who
was hospitalized on Oct. 28 have
both been released from the hos-
games. They were defeated by pital and are recuperating at their
Georgetown, Taylor, and LaGrange respective homes.
vice beginning at 2:30 p. m.
The Rev. Horn has served the
Mt Calvary Lutheran Church of
Eola for the past three years. Pr-
ior to that he was pastor of Eben-
ezer Lutheran Church at Manheim.
There w ill be no service at Eb-
enezer Lutheran Church in the fore-
noon on Nov. 10.
The Rev. L. Karcher of Fedor
MISS 1957 CHRISTMAS SEAL—Carolyn Calvert of Austin, Miss
Texas of 1957, aids her mother, Mrs. Robert W. Calvert, in pre-
paring Christmas Seals for mailing over Texas. M-s. Calvert is a
long-time member of the board of the Texas Tuberculosis Associa- . _
tion, and she and her daughter have a pent many past pre-Christmas Spitzenberger said there appeared
seasons working with Christmas Seals. Miss Calvert is the first
named Miss Christmas Seal of Texas, adding another title to her
previously acquired Miss Texas title.
didn't have a chance. Jackson said Slocomb to play and he won't be
toward building a swimming pool, nan of Bryan, division manager
Yes, 145 people are saying "Yes, of Southwestern States Telephone
Giddings will have a swimming Co. said that adjustment was made
necessary "to offset increased
are willing to do your part to
pay for it. Don’t wait and see
what's going to happen Be one of
those who will act and make it
happen.
Observa lions
By OURWOOD L FUCHS
Publisher
WE ARE STILL getting clipp-
ings sent to us illustrating the wide
publicity cancellation of the Lee
County Livestock Show and Rodeo
last month received throughout the
nation’s press.
The show was cancelled this year
because of rain when the two years
previous the annual Fair was not
held on account of drouth.
H. G. McDonald brought us a
copy of the Walsenburg, Colorado,
World-Independent he got on his
deer hunt to that area that carried
an item about the show.
This week the Rev. G. A. Zoch
of Taylor sends us a page from
Capper’s Weekly published in Top-
eka. Kansas, that also included
the item.
Earlier, a story had appeared in
the Southwest edition of the Wall
Street Journal published in Dallas.
; Cotton Plow-Up
Date Is Extended
To Friday, Nov. 15
A 15-day extension on the cotton
plow-up deadline in eight Central
Texas counties, including Lee Co-
unty, was announced by State Ag-
riculture Commissioner John White
The new deadline is Nov. 15. It
is the fourth area in which far-
mers were given additional time
for stalk destruction because of
rains.
The counties in which the new
deadline is Nov. 15. besides Lee,
are Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Gu-
adalupe. Hays, Travis, and Willi-
.amson. /
Should Giddings Have A Swimming Pool?
By PAUL SPITZENBERGER , If your answer is yes, then act
Chairman, Finance Committee now. Let your friends know you
Giddings Recreational Association are for this program and that you
Lee County will get another
Farm-to-Market Road is 1958, ac-
cording to plans announced last
Friday by the Texas Highway
The proceeds of the game will
go to the Giddings Recreational
Association, to be used on the
swimming pool project. It will be
played at the High School football
field beginning at 7:30 p. m.
The Rotarians are already boast-
ing they have the biggest water
boy in the country in Rudy Simon.
The Lions said they could get the
oldest, but they expect to use Don
CHURCH BUILDING boom in
Giddings appears to have started
rolling.
The First Methodist Congrega-
tion recently completed and open-
ed its new and beautiful building
in East Giddings
Martin Luther Church is current-
ly in the fourth week of its seven
week drive to raise $30,000 cash
needed to embark on its $100,000
buidling program for a new church
and parsonage and added Sunday
School facilities.
Immanuel Lutheran Church is
preparing a concerted effort to
raise funds to embark on its new
church building program Arch-
(Continued on Back Page)
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GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1957
The football game between mem-
bers of the Giddings Lions Club
and the Giddings Rotary Club has
been scheduled for Tuesday, Nov.
19. Representatives of the two
clubs met last week to work out
details of the game.
Boone Jackson will coach the
Lions, and Carl Andress will be
the Rotary Coach. Andress stated
that the team coached by Jackson
The strength of cotton, when
wet, increases by 25 per cent.
Other fibers lose from 10 to 25
per cent of their strength when
wet. ______________,
by Mutschink, Curtis Urban, and
Cecil Walthers to give the Buffs
their eighth straight victory this
season. Conversions were made
by Jimmy Hill, Melvin Schultz, and
Kenneth Reimers. -
• VOLUME 17
dealer, was driven by Ludwig in Lee County from Northrup south
Krause, 19. of Northrup, son of to the Fayette County line (to-
Mr. and Mrs Herbert Krause ward Winchester) which will con-
Ronnie was picked up by Dr. nect with a designation made in
S. W. Mantzel who was following Fayette County and close the gap
the pickup and taken immediat- on FM 448 between Northrup and
owe’en costume and did not have
on a mask, but apparently did
not see the approaching vehicle
in his exitement as he crossed
the highway.
Texans voted strong support of
three constitutional amendments
in the Tuesday election and their
passage was assured.
With almost all of the over
200,000 votes counted, the Texas
Election Bureau reported late
Wednesday the following figures::
Retirement Fund: 142,148 for;
52,264 against.
Pensions: 168,253 for; 29,331 a-
gainst.
Lincoln Church Calls
New Pastor From
Toronto, Canada
St. John’s Lutheran Congregation
at Lincoln in a Special meeting
of the voting body held on Nov.
3, 1957 called the Rev. Moritz J.
Michael of Toronto, Ontario, Can-
ada.
Pastor Michael is pastor of Trin-
ity Lutheran Church in Toronto
and is also serving as First Vice-
president of the Toronto District
of the Lutheran Church, Missouri
Synod.
He graduated from Concordia
Seminary, Springfield, Illinois,
with the class of 1929
Dime Box .... 23 16 33 6
Telephone rates in Giddings have
increased, effective with bills dat-
ed Qct. 26 and mailed out
last week, and another increase
will become effective when tele-
phone company offices are moved
to a new location on Austin Street.
Announcement of the new rates
went to subscribers along with
that averages 226 pounds and four
ounces. The Rotary Club will
counter with a backfield that
weighs 6 ounces and 225 pounds.
Vickers said his team would be
the fastest for the first ten yards,
especially since it was doubtful that
the Rotary Club could field a team
that could run that far.
The Giddings Market
Wednesday, Nov. 6. 1957
Eggs, cand. doz. 43c-33c-24c-15c
Hens .................. 12e..15c
Roosters .............................. 05c
Sweet Cream ....'......... 17c
Hides, per pound ..................... 7c
Pecans, per pound .......................’ 19c
tion on Austin Street (former City
Cleaners location). Effective with
the first billing date after the off-
ice has been moved and installation
ofja new switchboard completed,
the following rates (per month)
will go into effect (subject to 10
per cent tax):
Business one party $6.50, busi-
ness two party $5.65, business ex-
J tension $1.50; residence one party
$3.65, residence two party $3.25,
residence extension $1.
Prior to the increase in rates
effective Oct. 26, rates (per month)
in Giddings were as follows (plus
10 per cent tax): Business one
party $5, business two party $4.35,
business extension $1; residence
one party $2.80, residence two par-
ty $2.50, residence extension $.95.
The Rev. August Horn To Be
Installed at Manheim Sunday
The Rev. August Horn of Eola | has been serving as vacancy
9 4
32 7
Events Calendar
Nov. 8 —
Football - Eglin there
Lexington High Homecoming
Nov. 11
Holiday, Veterans Day
Nov. 12 —
P-TA Meeting
Nov. 15 —
—Football - La Grange here
Nov. 18
Railroad Meeting
Nov. 19 —
Study Club Meets
Giddings Value Day
Football - Lions vs Rotary Club
Nov. 21 --
Garden Club Meets
Nov. 26 —
Leonard's and Margaret’s
Fashion Show
Nov. 28 —
Holiday, Thanksgiving
Dec. 3 —
Study Club Meets
Dec. 8, 9, and 10
Immanuel Lutheran Christmas
Pageant
Dec. 10
Water Bond: 142,993 for; 51,937 Tanglewood „ 10 5 15 1
Should Giddings have a swimm-
ing pool? The time to make this
decision is here now.
Who will make this decision?
You and I!
How do we make this decision?
By getting excited, so excited that
we will talk about the swimming
pool -project every time we see
someone.
Do we have’ reason to get ex-
cited? Yes, we do.
Already 41 people have paid the
price of $100 or more for a stock-
holder's share in this project. Are
you one of these persons? Good
Twenty-two have started and are
making regular monthly payments
toward paying for a share. Are
you one of these persons? Good!
Eighty-two people felt they cou-
id not afford a full $100 share, so
they are giving $50, $25. $10, etc.,
whatever they can afford. Are you
one of these? Good!
W. Lex’ton .... 12 11 22 3 15 8
Lawhon ........4 2 6 0 4 2
Blue ..............6 4 11 0 7 4
Lincoln ..........9 14 14 9 11 12
Northrup ......8 7 12 3 8 7
Loebau ..........3 11 5 8 5 9
Ganttville .... 3 4 6 16 1
Absenteie ......2 0 2 0 2 0
Total .... 289 143 367 68 308 121
the farmers .voting must approve
quotas before they can be effec-
tive.
This referendum is not to decide
if there will be acreage allotments,
fortwhether quotas are approved or
disapproved, acreage allotments
will be in effect on the 1958 crop
as a condition of eligibility for pr-
ice support.
Polling places for the five com-
munities in Lee County will be list-
ed at a later date.
4 11 12 3 3 12 .
43 2 44 0 43 2
2 13 7 7 2 12
5 3 3 5 2 5
of interest shown by voters.
In Lee County the voting was as
follows:
Ret Fd. Pen. W. B.
FA FA FA
Giddings C.H. 95 15 100 10 97 12
Giddings No. 37 9 39 9 36 11
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