The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME 74 GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 NUMBER 36
Viewpoint
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by B. P.
Area Horse Show Dated
1 All Proceeds Going To Swimming Pool
WHAT YOU THINK - T A Horse Show, limited to or not; age makes no difference.
0 r r . Wo horses in Lee County, is being
trien ' ine. rom Jack Cars-planned by the Lee County portunity for horse owners in
well Funeral Home of Houston Sheriff’s Posse on Aug. 23 with
This will be the perfect op-
stopped by The News office to
see me the other day a
They were on their way to
Austin to pick up a body and
had parked the ambulance in
front of the office.
About that time, n woman
came into the office and asked.
"Who died?"
FEW GOOD WORDS — A
bad, bad man was shot in a
saloon fight in Cripple Creek,
in the old days They buried
him:then everyone stood
around the filled grave wait-
ing for someone to say a few
good words for the deceased
All tongues were silent
At last, one old man, who had
all proceeds going to the Gid-
dings swimming pool. The Show
will be open to any breed or
color horse, whether registered
the community to exhibit their
animals in halter and perfor-
News Briefs
mance. Each entry will be
shown in his own age group and
halter.
The performance will consist
70 MPH SPEED LIMIT
The legal speed limit of au-l
of roping, reining, cutting, wes-
tern pleasure, pole bending and
barrel racing. Entrants don't
tomobiles in Texas will be
raised from 60 miles an hour
to 70 beginning Aug 23.
The speed limit will mainly
have to possess a highly-train-
ed horse; just a riding pony or
cow horse. H
still show his riding horse in
pole bending and western plea-
sure. All horses must be shown
in halter classes, but perfor-
mance classes are optional.
The entry fee for halter clas-
ses will be $2 per horse and $1
for performance classes. The
jack pot is also optional.
"So tune up your horse, brush
him off and come out and help
support this benefit show,"
stated a spokesman for the Pos-
se. . -
Entries should be turned in
Presley s Mother
Named Giddings
NEWS FEATURE
There will be a class to fit immediately, although the dead-
By B. P.
John Knox, the county sur-
veyor,; had an out-of-town
visitor come to his office in the
courthouse last spring. He was
a neatly-dressed, good-looking
young fellow who said he was
interested in knowing how the
town of Giddings was named.
Mr. Knox explained to the
gentleman that Giddings was
named after J. D. Giddings of
Brenham. He went on to say
that the railroad played a big
concern state and federal high-
ways, although some farm-to-
every horse, since some horses
will not be able to enter roping
and cutting. The owner can
market roads will also have
raised speed limits.
Already the new speed zone ]
signs are being manufactured.
When ready, they will be plac-
known the dead man longest,
Lifted his hand. “Friends,” he ed along designated highways
said. "Ol Jim used to shoot ■
mighty good hand of marbles,
as n kid."
PALLBEARERS — Whenever
and covered until Aug 23 Then
the present 55-60 mph signs
will be removed.
LA GRANGE SCHOOL
BOARD MAKES RI LES
line for entering is Aug. 23 at
6 p.m. No entry blank is need-
See 'SHOW, page 5
part in the
town.
The fellow
founding of the
then told Mr.
Softball, Baseball Playoffs Begin
Softball Playoffs
To Begin Sunday
The Community Softball Lea-
gue Playoffs begin Sunday. The
Giddings, Dime Box
Win First Round Of
top four teams of
I get on a subject, I can't seem
to get off again . .
.of Trustees of the La Grange at Winchester
An old maid who was getting | Independent School District Lincoln.
old, decided to plan her funeral, adopted a regulation eancern-
She told her sister that she ing the clothing and makeup of defeated
wanted women pallbearers students. Fedor.
"Don’t be silly," answered "Clothing and facial makeup."
her sister, you know its the stated the regulation, "worn by
custom to have men pallbearers pupils must be in good taste and
at a funeral appropriate for school wear
member league are Winchester,
Lincoln, Fedor and
LA GRANGE
The Board This Sunday Manheim will play
and Fedor at
Community Playoffs
. The Giddings Buffs and the
the seven „
Dime Box 30-30‘s were vic-
- torious Sunday in the first
round of Community League
playoffs.
Dime Box edged by Carmine
In last Sunday's play Fedor
Lincoln 9 to 6 at
“J know," said the old maid. (Slacks on girls, skirts on boys,
but no men took me out while shorts, leotards, culottes, spag-
I am alive and they dam sure hetti strap dresses are some of
aint going to take me out after the articles of clothing not con-
I'm dead." sidered appropriate for school
wear).
MARRIAGE — With the in- Pupils who violate these rules
creasing number of divorces, will be sent home and given an
America is really “the land of unexcused absence for each day
the free". . missed because of violating this
But at the same time, with regulation.
the marriage rate increasing it LEXINGTON FIRST BALE
Otto Fick served as president
of the CSL and Delward Scha-
utschick served as secretary
Members of the league and
See SOFTBALL, page 5
‘Dear Gertrude'
Column To Debut
If you are an average - type
person, you probably have pro-
110-9 in a slug-fest at the Dime
Box field. The game was a see-
saw affair with DB starving off
a late-in-the-game Carmine
rally.
Carmine and Dime Box will
meet again Sunday, this time
in Carmine, for the second
game of the playoffs. They are
playing two-out-of-three games
and if Dime Box wins again, it
will all be over for Carmine.
Giddings used a 17-hit attack
See BASEBALL, page 5
blems in everyday living which DIME BOX YOUTH
you could use some help in sol- TAL .
ving. RODEO IS MAY 24
So why not let Gertude help DIME BOX — A Youth Ro-
you with her • "timely advice" deo, sponsored by the Dime Box
Knox that he worked for re-
cording artist Elvis Presley, and
that he was the first cousin of
the teenage idle. And both of
their mothers’ maiden names
were Giddings.
Mr. Knox then became more
inquisitive about Elvis Presley
and started asking questions.
“Tell me,” said Mr. Knox,
“what kind of a fellow is Elvis?
Is he a hillbilly or what?"
The young man went on to
say that Elvis is a nice well-
educated and cultured person.
He is an accomplished musician
and singer and just seems to
have a nack for it.
“Well then," asked Mr. Knox,
“if he’s not a hillbilly, why -
does he sing that hillbilly and
rock and roll music?"
His answers to this question
was that more people in the
United States would rather lis-
ten to that kind of music than
any other kind.
"I’m sure the fellow has a
hard time making a living,”
commented Mr. Knox. He was
told that Presley’s income last
year wasn’t but 2312 million
dollars of which Kennedy got
2012 million for income tax.
also shows America is still “the
home of the brave".
GO ROUND — Love, they
say, makes the world go round
But then, so does a good
swallow of tobacco juice.
LEXINGTON
WHEN IT RAINS You've
Then of the three million left,
Presley’s general manager got
51 per cent of that, leaving him
not quite 1%2 million dollars.
Any resident of Lee, Burle- The fellow ended up by say- •
Youth Rodeo
on whatever perplexes you
Association, is
The first
ginned at
The "Dear Gertrude" advice planned at the arena for Aug.
Lexington Gm and Mill Friday, column starts next week in The 24 at 8 pm.
July 26 and was brought in by Giddings News. The columnist
bale of cotton was
July 26 and was brought in by
E I. Kissman of Lincoln.
The bale weighed 573 pounds
and contained 960 pounds of
seed Forty cents a pound was
paid.
. . .TWIRLERS ATTEND SCHOOL
.It hasn’t rained enough around four twirlers for Giddings
this area in the past month to L i ...,
High School are presently at
Sam Houston State Teachers
heard the old saying, "When it
rains, it pours!"
even think about pouring, but
the old saying really applied to
me during last month, and I'm,
glad it’s all over
I went to Austin for an ap-
pointment and as I drove into
town I felt a tug on the steer-
ins wheck which meant that
either I was having a flat tire
or my car wanted to turn
College in Huntsville where
they are receiving a five-day
training course in twirling
The twirlers are Linda Han-
nes, Kathy Richter, Peggy Leh-
ma rm and Nancy Tonn.
is a local writer whose name
will remain anonymous. It will
appear in The News exclusively
and will deal only with letters
received
News.
Send
from readers of The
your problems no
matter how insignificant they
! may seem to "Dear Ger-
trude, S The Giddings News,
Giddings, Tex.
You do not have to sign 'let-
ters sent All problems will be
answered
either personally
by mail or in the weekly column
when possible
**
FHA FRESHMAN PARTY
All Giddings High School Mrs. Symmank Wins
freshman girls who have pre-
around and go back home ===
It was the tire So I drove
into the nearest filling station;
the attendant was busy so I by the Future Homemakers of
took it upon myself to fill the
registered for Homemaking 1
arc invited to a party sponsored
Free Shopping Spree
Mrs O. W Symmank is one
tire.
There ought to be a law
against making the water hose
look the same as the air hose.
I splashed water all over my-
self.
THAT WASN'T the worst
See VIEWPOINT, page 16
son or Washington county who jng that his own salary wasn’t
is 18 years old dr younger, is a whole lot. He wanted to be
invited to enter.
Trophies and ribbons will be
awarded to the qualified win-
ners in each event.
Entry blanks can be picked
See RODEO, page 16
"easy" on Elvis Presley so he
would still have enough money
left to live on. .
Another man was telling this
News reporter the other day
that Elvis used to date a girl
Grand Opening Set
By Wolf's Grocery
Wolf's Grocery will have the
grand opening of their newly-
remodeled store this weekend
with food and merchandise
prizes to be given away Satur-
day.
of the winners of the Pepsi
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wolf,
owners of the grocery store
located in south Giddings on
America 1 - I Cola andTeem "Shoppers
The party will be held in the Sweepstakes" $50,000 contest
Homemaking department Aug
15 from 2-4 p. m.
RUMMAGE-BAKE SALE
U. S. 77, invited the people of
this trade area to stop by Fri-
day and Saturday to see their
and will get to shop free for
five minutes at Paul’s Food new facilities and sign up for
A rummage
will be held
Store in Giddings.
She will get to keep all the
the drawings.
Twelve baskets of groceries
and bake sale groceries (only food items)
by the Sons of which she can carry to the
Hermann Saturday in the va-
cant building next to Richters utes.
checkout counter in five min-
Variety Store.
See SHOPPING, page 16
and various merchandise prizes
will be given away Saturday
afternoon in drawings which
will be held every half-hour
See WOLF’S, page 5
from Caldwell. The girl met
Presley in Houston and several
times he went to Caldwell to
see her.
**_
Brenham Residents
Conserving Water
BRENHAM — Mayor Reese
Lockett has asked Brenhamites
not to water their lawns Mon-
day and Tuesday to help con-
serve the water supply.
Although the City of Bren-
ham has ample water, the ex-
tremely dry conditions cause
the water pressure to drop due
to the extra use of water. 1
“We want to maintain maxi-
mum water pressure in case of
ah emergency or major fire un-
der these extremely dry condit-
ions," Mayor Lockett told the
Brenham Banner-Press.
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Preuss, L. M., III. The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963, newspaper, August 8, 1963; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1634108/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.