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IE SEALY NEWS
VOLUME 58—NUMBER 39
SEALY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1946
GIVING IS LIVING, SO—
Lions Magazine May Publicize Sealy International Meeting
who
FROM
Till XMAS
Garland Barrett
Returns From
Hospital Monday
NEWSPRINT PRICE
INCREASE FORCES
PAPERS TO GO UP
FOUR NEGROES
ARRESTED HERE
SATURDAY NIGHT
$555,000 ALLOTTED
WHITNEY DAM FOR
FLOOD PROJECT
10 Marriage Licenses
Filed at Bellville
Since Last Report
BLAKEY’S WELDING
SHOP BURGLARIZED
FOR SECOND TIME
Floyd Blakey, owner of Blak-
(The News mails this card)
Itllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllll!llllllllll
Boy Scout Circus
December 6-7
Sam H. Coliseum
First In News
of Sealy
And Austin County
pick up same. You may call—
Coach Hinton at Sealy high
school. No. 26.
Ennis Nentwig, at the Quality
Shop, No. 29.
Joe Fietsam, at
News, No. 37.
One colored couple, John Ever-
line, and Ora Mae Cooper, ap-
plied.
LOCAL LIONS TO MEET
MONDAY AT HOTEL
President W. B. Hinton of the
Sealy Lions Club, reminds mem-
bers that next Monday night,
December 9, is regular meeting
time, with the program to start
promptly at 6:30 at the Sealy
Hotel.
eluded in a future issue of Lions
Magazine, which includes local
and visiting state officers of the
Lions organization.
Reading from left to right,
back row: Sealy Lion’s presi-
dent, W. B. Hinton, Mrs. Hin-
16
SHOPPING
DAYS
Local Lions are enthused over
their recent banquet meeting
here, which featured Internation-
al Director Herby C. Petry, of
Carrizo Springs, who delivered a
fine address.
The picture above may be in-
Recent additional increases in
the price of white printing paper,
along with the settling of the
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
strike, which followed up with
an approximate forty per cent
increase in price of all mechani-
cal department needs of every
paper in the-country, already has
forced many of the country
weekly newspapers, along with
the big dailies, to increase their
circulation rates.
Metal, of which an average
country weekly has several tons,
also jumped from 15 to 21 cents
per pound. The high rate of
shrinkage from frequent melting
adds considerably to the price of
newspaper production.
The News, along with other
weeklies of South Texas, raised
their subscription price several
years ago, but at the present ad-
ditional cost of production it is
only natural that subscription
prices soon will be pushed up
50c or $1.00 a year. Many week-
lies recently advanced from $2
to $3 per year.
THE SEALY NEWS
NEWS OF SEALY AND AUSTIN COUNTY
Garland Ray Barrett,
spent three weeks and two days
in the polio ward at Jefferson
Davis Hospital in Houston, re-
turned to his home here Mon-
day. His mother, Mrs. Charles
Barrett, reported that he is doing
fine, and will be permitted to get
up on Friday. The only stiffness
in his limbs is noticed during his
necessary daily exercises.
Garland will not be permitted
to return to school this year, and
may not ride his bicycle for about
six months. He will take-further
many a day.
Sharp-shooter Cupid, with his
never-miss aim, matched the fol-
lowing couples, who filed for
licenses recently: Melvin O. Pom-
ikal and Miss Florine Luhn;
Lloyd Lecamu, Miss Florence
Foster; Woodrow Otto Hluchan,
Mrs. Evelyn Keding Hluchan;
Jesse C. Phillippi, Miss Mildred
Irene Eckermann; Norbert Dahse,
Miss Thelma Rememrt; John H.
E. Arning, Jr., Miss Leona Laura
Emshoff; Le Roy Kulow, Miss
Geraldine Bastian; Walter Bothe,
and Mrs. Agnes Bolten.
Definite proof that Cupid is
still on the beam, scoring direct
hits among the matrimonial eli-
gibles, is seen in the records of
County Clerk Lawrence Dittert,
at Bellville, which shows that
nine couples have made applica-
tions for marriage licenses since
the latest report the early part
of November. Little Daniel has
certainly reaped a harvest this
year, his match-making ability
Joe Quinton Bailey
Fatally Injured
By Automobile
Joe Quinton Bailey, aged 1
year and 9 months, son of Mrs.
Ruth Bailey, died in Haskell
Monday afternoon. Funeral ser-
vices were held at Haskell Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Survivors include his mother,
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Balke, of Galveston, and Mr.
and Mrs. Bailey, of Haskell, and
a number of uncles and aunts.
Mrs. Bailey, the former Miss
Ruth Balke, a former resident of
Sealy, and young son went to
Haskell only a few days ago, and
had planned to make their home
there for some time.
As they were moving into
their new home,, the child got
away and ran into the street,
being fatally injured by a pass-
ing car, it is reported.
By JIMMIE CLARK,
News Washington Bureau
Following President Truman’s
lifting of ceilings on flood con-
trol funds, U. S. engineers say
that the $550,000 relocation pro-
ject originally scheduled for
Whitney Dam will proceed. The
dam site is located about thirty
miles north of Waco on the
Brazos River, and it is expected
that it will aid greatly in help-
ing to prevent many of the ser-
ious floods which have plagued
Brazos River watershed farmers
along the entire route of the
stream to its end at Freeport,
where it empties into the Gulf
of Mexico.
Engineers plan to resume work
on road relocation contract with
the state of Texas at once.
It is also expected that an
abuttment project to cost in the
neighborhood of $500,000 will be
started in the near future, possib-
ly by spring, with plans going
on schedule and apparently in
no danger of running out of
funds.
You have been given
a one year’s subscription to
The Sealy News
treatments at the Houston hos-
pital on Wednesday of next
week, and must continue the
specified exercises for limbering
the muscles.
TEXAS THEATRE
RCA Photophone
ey’s Welding Shop on U. S. 90
about 3 miles east of Sealy, re-
ported to officers Monday morn-
ing that sometime between the
time he closed his business Sat-
urday night until opening Mon-
day morning, that the place was
broken into and a considerable
amount of tools and shop equip-
ment was looted.
Some months ago the place
was broken into, Blakey being
fortunate enough to have officers
locate most of the stolen articles
at Nacogdoches and Houston.
One portion of the paper is
devoted to foreign news from
London, Paris, and Strasburgh,
relating accounts of fighting
overseas.
Another portion, a whole page
is diverted to advertising, sher-
iff’s sales, and various notices.
One ad announces the sale of
a Negro slave.
The paper has been framed
and is on display in the News
office window.
D. J. Kunze brought into the
News office, a copy of the Ulster
County Gazette, published at
Kingston, New York, by Samuel
Freer and Son, Saturday, Janu-*
ary 4, 1800. This paper has
been in the family for many,
many years, and Mr. Kunze
stated that he had offers from - „ ________
a newspaper, offering to buy it' no doubt topping his record in
for a museum or files, but he
preferred to keep the copy.
The paper tells of the entomb-
ment of Washington, the date-
line reading George Town, Dec.
20. It tells of the funeral pro-
cession, beginning at Mt. Ver-
non to the bottom of the elevat-
ed lawn, on the bank of the
Potomac and of the services.
General Washington died on the
14th of December, 1799. On the
same page there is a tribute to
the general, a poem by a young
lady.
There is a message of sympa-
thy to the President from the
members of the Senate, and a
reply from President John
Adams.
WALUS MEN FLY
TO MEXICO FOR
INAUGURATION
Three Wallis business men re-
turned from Mexico Monday
night, where they made a busi-
ness trip and attended the in-
auguration of Mexico’s President
Aleman the latter part of the
past week.
Glenn Brown, of Wallis, an
official of the Robinhood com-
pany of Houston, helped charter
an Eastern Airliner, which car-
ried a group of Houston Cham-
ber of Commerce officials. Join-
ing him on the flight were Frank
Petter, of the F. B. Petter Com-
pany, and Garland Mize, of Wal-
lis.
The party left Thursday,
Thanksgiving, morning, arriving
there that afternoon. Houston
papers carried photos of the par-
ty boarding the plane and ar-
riving at their destination. The
fuselage of the plane bore the
words, “Viva Mexico, Viva Ale-
man.”
A. A. Jaster
Opens Jewelry Store
In Bellville
A. A. Jaster, of Brenham, held
the opening of a jewelery store,
which is known as Jaster Jew-
elry Store No. 2, at Bellville, Sat-
urday of the past week. Mr. Jas-
ter’s number one store is locat-
ed in Brenham.
Store No. 2, in the former
Smith Bros, location, is under
the management of Mr. and Mrs.
Abie Lesser. They carry a full
line of jewelry, rings, watches,
etc., and have among their stock
many beautiful items for the
home.
The store, neat and attractive
in appearance, will soon be one
of the most complete up-to-date
stores in this section.
Leave Your Old
Surplus Toys, Dolls,
With the Boy Scouts
The Sealy Lions Club together
with the Sealy Boy Scouts, are
going to collect all old toys, etc.,
that they possibly can before
Christmas. If you have any old
toys laying around, that are not
too badly worn, and that can
be fixed without too much ef-
fort and expense, please call one
of the following numbers and
a Boy Scout will be around be-
fore Tuesday, December 10 to
Limitation On
Weight On
Mail Matter
Effective 12:01 a.m., Dec. 6,
and until further notice, no ar-
ticle of first class mail, includ-
ing air mail, weighing in excess
of 5 pounds, and no parcels of
fourth class matter exceeding 5
pounds in weight or 18 inches
in length or 60 inches in length
and girth combined shall be ac-
cepted for mailing.
Inquire at your local post of-
fice for additional information.
SEALY BASKETEERS
PLAY BRENHAM TONIGHT
Coach Owen E. Erekson’s Bren-
ham High School Cubs will open
their 1946-47 basketball season
at Cub gymnasium in Brenham
Thursday night, when they tang-
le with Sealy in a double header.
The tilts will get under way
at 7:00 o’clock, with the “B”
teams taking the floor, follow-
ed by the “A” game at eight.
State Highway Patrolman A.
W. Weiss and Deputy Sheriff Joe
Pyka, Sr., nabbed four negroes
here last Saturday night about
8:30 p.m., near the Sealy Lum-
ber Co. on U. S. 90.
It seems three of the negroes
stole a ’40 model Ford in Hous-
ton a day or so before, driving
to San Antonio, where the fourth
joined the party. There they
watched a San Antonian drive
up to his home, get out of the
car and go into the house. Find-
ing the keys in the car, the ne-
groes left San Antonio in two
cars, abandoning the Ford near
Seguin, after taking off two
vheels, which they had in the
Chevrolet when arrested here.
They were 26, 20, 22 and 24
years of age. The officers took
them to jail at Seguin the same
night.
ton, Mrs. Richard Spinn, Richard
Spinn, county judge of Wash-
ington county, Supt. Vernon
Madden, Lions’ State Secretary
Marlowe Fisher, and Roy Price,
of San Antonio;
Front row: Zone chairman
FIREMEN TO MEET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Sealy’s Volunteer Fyr - Fyters
are prompted by Chief Harry
Nowak and Secretary Edgar
Luedecke to be on hand next
Wednesday night, December 11,
at 8 o’clock at the court house
for regular monthly meeting.
A new army fire truck will be
among matters to be discussed,
if specifications are received
from the Houston office of the
War Assets Administration, and
it may be voted on as to wheth-
er to make an effort to buy one
of these surplus army fire
trucks.
Gilbert Meier, Frank Russ,
Charles Krampitz and J. W. Few-
ell were in Houston last Friday
making application to bid at
sales to be held soon at Foster
Field, Victoria.
HOSPITAL NOTES
New arrivals:
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Mikeska of Waller a 7 lb. daugh-
ter on Nov. 22.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John
Macha of Orchard Nov. 29 at 10
lb. boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jan-
ick of Katy are the proud par-
ents of a son born Nov. 29.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Mikeska of Wallis a ten pound
boy on Nov. 29.
A new arrival for the Elmo
Ekarius’ of Sealy, a little son
born Dec. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Vallie Hintz of
near Sealy are parents of an 8
pound daughter born Dec. 2.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. R.
Sterling of Brookshire, a little
daughter on Nov. 24th.
Patients receiving medical
treatment:
L. A. Stasny, Sealy.
Eldon Neuman, of Brookshire.
Joe Weaver of Sealy.
Elroy Holtkamp, Sealy.
Mrs. Floyd Brown, San Felipe.
Miss Mildred Reibenstein of
Cat Spring.
B. Flores, Sealy.
Mrs. Charles Klecka of ’Wallis.
Farmers of County
Complete Soil
Conservation Practice
In the Austin-Washington Soil
Conservation District, cooperat-
ors in the different conservation
groups have completed the fol-
lowing practices: Emil Luedeker,
Industry Conservation Group,
has planted 30 acres of Austrian
winter peas; Innnocence Minks,
Hartsville Conservation Group,
has planted 9 acres of Austrian
winter peas; Alois Sodolak, Mix-
ville Conservation Group, has
planted 17 acres of Austrian
winter peas. Ed. Billig, also of
the Mixville Conservation group,
is constructing 1500 feet of di-
version terrace to divert hillside
water from cultivated land in the
bottom. In the Kenney Conserva-
tion Group, Mr. Beamon has
planted 50 acres of Vetch, and
has cleared a sight for a farm
pond, and construction will begin
in the near future.
The above mentioned cover
crops will provide protection to
the land during the winter, and
will improve the soil when turn-
ed under in the spring.
Plans have been completed for
a drainage system on Lidge
Hranicky’s farm in the Harts-
ville Conservation Group. The
system has been staked for con-
struction and construction will
begin as soon as weather per-
mits.
The following farmers have
prepared plans on their farms
assisted by personnel of the
Bellville Work Unit: Mixville
Conservation Group, Edwin E.
Stuessel, Wm. Nowak, Joe W.
Siska, Ed. Billig, Alois Sodolak,
and Mrs. Josephine M. Gordon;
Hartsville Conservation Group,
Jake Jousan, W. C. Witte, Peter
Holub, Innocenc Minks, and Ben
Witte.
The Sealy
As an additional service to
its readers The Sealy News has
made arrangements for special
news representation in Washing-
ton.
The News’ representative in
Washington is Jimmie Clark, a
veteran Texas newspaper man
with a long record of service in
Austin, Houston, Beaumont and
other Texas areas. Mr. Clark
knows Texas and knows the
significance of certain national
events to definite localities. He
is exceptionally familiar with
South Texas and will give spe-
cial attention to news of inter-
est to Sealy, Austin County and
the Brazos Valley area.
Mr. Clark’s job is to send back
to, us, news that will be of di-
rect interest to this section. Any
suggestions that you might have
will be welcomed always.
Miss Augusta Ladig
Buried in
Kollatschny Cemetery
Miss Augusta Ladig of Cat
Spring, died in Bellville at 8:30
a.m. Sunday, December 1. She
was born in Cat Spring on April
5, 1873, and died of a heart at-
tack, having been ill eleven
days. She was reared at Cat
Spring, and was a member of
the Lutheran church there.
Funeral services were held
from her late home at Cat
Spring at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
3, with burial in the Kollat-
schny Cemetery, Rev. A. W.
Weber officiating, with Pete E.
Etlinger Funeral Home direct-
ing.
Survivors are 3 sisters, Mrs.
Frances Jousan, Mrs. Mary
Skeen, Mrs. Hugo Suhr, of Cat
Spring; and 3 brothers, Charles
Ladig of La Grange; Will of
Cat Spring; and Otto of Houston.
A large circle of nephews, and
nieces and other friends.
Sale of Christmas
Seals Under Way
To Fight Tuberculosis
The 40th annual Christmas
Seal Sale which opened Monday,
Nov. 25, will carry a life-saving
Christmas tradition not only in-
to Texas homes, but to all mili-
tary installations in Texas.
In a letter to Pansy Nichols,
executive secretary, Texas Tub-
erculosis Association, General
Jonathan M. Wainright yester-
day indorsed the State-wide
campaign for funds to combat
tuberculosis, and declared Christ
mas Seals will be made avail-
able to military personnel thru-
out the State.
“The purchase' and use of
Christmas Seals has become an
institution in this country of
ours,” General Wainwright said,
“and I would like to have you
know that your efforts in rais-
ing funds through the sale of
seals for use in the control of
tuberculosis has my wholeheart-
ed indorsement.
“It has come to my attention
that over 17,000 members of the
armed services had to be dis-
charged during the first three
years of World War II because
of tuberculosis. I know from
personal experience of many
occasions during the war when
17,000 men could have influen-
ced a battle decisively.
“In these times it is most im-
portant that the preservation of
good health and the treatment
of disease receive proper em-
phasis in conjunction with other
measures of preparedness pre-
sently being advocated by those
who realize the necessity for a
strong United States.
“I am certain you will find
the commanding officers of the
several posts, eamps and stations
within the Fourth Army Area
very happy to cooperate with
you in any way they can in pro-
moting the sale of Christmas
Seals to military personnel.
“You have my best personal
wishes for a very successful
drive. If I canbe of any assist-
ance, please call upon me,” he
concluded.
If anyone living outside of
the city limits has anything that
they might want to bring in,
they can leave same at The
Quality Shop of Sealy News of-
fice. Remember to phone one
of the above numbers, and let
us know as soon as possible, how
many articles you have, and we
shall see to it that they are
picked up before next Tuesday.
All boy scouts and any mem-
ber of the Lions Club, who can
meet next Tuesday night at the
Methodist church, are requested
to come prepared to mend and
paint toys.
Let’s be there, and do our
good deed this Christmas, so
that those less fortunate than
us can enjoy a Merry Christmas,
too.
N TWJC From Washington
NLWD Straight To You
Luke Hill, Lions International
Director Herb C. Petry, Jr., Dis-
trict Governor A. R. Ezell, Mrs.
Ezell, Mrs. Luke Hill, Mrs. Ruth
Westermann, and Rev. W. C.
Hughes.
—Picture by Sealy Photo Studio
• -—___
Newspaper Published
In 1800 Displayed
In Window Here
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE MP OULNT
Reception Honors
Dr. and Mrs. Wigle
At Wallis
Members of the Wallis Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Par-
ent-Teachers association gave a
reception for Dr. and Mrs. A. T.
Wigle at the Wallis high school
last night, Wednesday. A lunch
with tea and coffee were served
to the honorees and guests at-
tending.
Dr. and Mrs. Wigle and their
two children are new residents
in that town, having moved
there a few weeks ago. Dr.
Wigle, physician and surgeon, is
open for practice in the Paz-
derny building.
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Farmers to Elect
Local Committeemen
This Saturday
Geo. A. Vasicek, chairman of
the Austin County Agricultural
Conservation committee, today,
issued a final appeal to farmers
to attend their local farm-pro-
gram committeeman elections,
to be held Saturday, Dec. 7, from
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the fol-
lowing places:
Community A, Wallis, Hranic-
ky Meat Market.
Community B, Sealy, Sealy
court room.
Community C, San Felipe,
Sealy court room.
Community D, Cat Spring,
Agricultural Hall.
Community E, Bellville, AAA
office.
Community F, Cochran, Ives
Creek School.
Community G, Kenney, Theo.
Luhn Store.
Community H, Nelsonville,
Nelsonville Hall.
Community I, Welcome, Reich-
le Store.
Community J, Industry, In-
dustry School.
Three regular committee mem-
bers and two alternates will be
chosen in each community. A
delegate also will be elected to
the county convention, which
later will choose the county
committee of three members. ■
“Farmers have a big voice in
national farm programs through
the farmer-elected committee-
men system,” Mr. Vasicek said.
“A good turn-out will show that
they believe in this way of run-
ning the program.
“The coming year is sure to
bring new reconversion prob-
lems, and the committeemen
will have heavy responsibilities.
By casting their ballots, farm-
ers can make sure that the men
administering the program are
the men most familiar with lo-
cal needs. We hope that every
eligible farmer will take time
to vote.
New Starting Time
Saturday Mat ________2:30 p.m.
Sunday Mat____3:00 p.m.
Nite Show __________6:45 p.m.
Thursday-Friday Dec. 5-6
“PARTNERS IN
TIME”
with Lum and Abner
Saturday Dec. 7
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Carole Landis,
Allyn Joslyn
Thursday-Friday Dec. 12-13
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