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VOL. 10g NO. 171
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1968
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ove Gainin
somentor
1
ws
I
Kennedy for President" of-
fice was opened today, only a
few hours before the first ses-
Maria, Youngest
Recipient, Dies
- son of the 1968 Dowp-pnett.xoexoriranims see - 6=
* National Convention, bacread- HOUSTON (OPT) - Doc-
tors today said " the rejection
process" apparently caused
the cardiac arrest which pro-
Cs
Young Farmers Honor Wendlers,
fiec 7 Ta vis Boeker President ”% D
’ '. ■ A _ - _ „ _ L ers of the key Illinois and Cal-
ifornia delegations insisted
PILOT CLUB MEETING ANOTHER FIRST BALE . they were not behind the move.
The Brenham Pilot Club will Ben Klussmann of the William The denials came from
have a combined dinner and Penn Community brought the ™ of
meeting at W illie’s Steak Ho- first bale of cotton to the Floyd' Mayor Richard . eue - -u. ----------
use Monday, Aug. 26, at 7p.m. Sommer Gin late last week, 9keafinchaaume othe & ' received the heart of an 47
DL OF FICE CLOSED some 23 days later than the Jesse Unruh, leaderforthe 174. year-old boy. An autopsy re-(
The Driver's License Office first bale was ginned in that vote caoroia delegation, port released today said dot- I
will be closed Monday, Aug. area last vear. It if reported They insisted they were not tors. " , attendance of the
26, through Thursday. Aus that here will be a “ short” e Insir *rrts youngest living transplant pa-
29,Iursday Aug. cotton crop in the Wiliam taking partany move to tient noticed early signs of.
BAYLOR DEGREE Penn area this year, as m dap.o tepNo- tissue rejection Friday night.
Judy Kay Jaster is candidate many other areas of the coun- maton. mepresidennalson and took immediate steps to
for a degree in biology from If- 2 .. ... counteract the rejection.
S 6 mThe apparently unauthor-
Bay or Ierdicise, SBA OFFICER ized movement to draft Ken-,
mer. She is dauctler, or Fr*1 Leach, Small Business nedy had picked up momen-
and Mrs. Elvis F. Jaster .-Administration loan officer, tum in the early hours of
. ... orenan.will be at the Washington morning when the 36-year-
old Massachusetts senator
duced the death of Maria Gia-
nnaris, 5, of Hagerstown, Md.,
late Sunday, a week after she
The Brenham Young Farm- pairtment. . .__.
era honored Mr. and Mrs. Travis Boeker was instal-
Carl L. Wendler for their led as president by Donald Ray
many years of faithful aer- Ahrens, District vice prest-
vice to the organization at dent of Young Farmers A
their annual awards banquet rens was introduced by Luther,
held Friday evening, Aug. 23 Gregor, state vice president .
at the Brem-t-736 of the OR:----Hmo
aneee Wn == * 06 Other officers installed
safeterlaatitaier and were RaymondDickschat, vice
chid ArdCr Weer and, president; Billy Ray Jensen,
candren C arof and Cheryl, secretary: David Buck, treas.
will move in the near future HHERLA BOE
to Bryan, where Wendler has . uesiandlarry Rotor
accepted the position of head of .P-L
the vocational agriculture de-
BULLETINS
CHICAGO (UPI) - Vice
Lawrence Hemann, Blinn
College agriculture teacher,
acted as master of cere-
monies. .
Ahrens, also presented Mr.:
and Mrs. Wendler a cast alum-
inum barbecue grill. Mrs.
Wendler was the recipient of a
beautiful orchid corsage.
Wendler thanked those
present for the gift and asked
that they continue to give their
dents which took place in the support to all vocational pro-
area Sunday, two in the city grams offered la Brenham,
and one in the county. Young Farmer Advisors of
James Allan Ahrens of the Brenham Chapter will be
Brenham is under treatment Carter M. Dibrell, Robert Lit-
in Bohne Memorial Hospital tie, and Wilfred Krause,
for cuts and bruises suffered The program ended when
in an 11:50 p. m. Sunday mis- Hemann presented Mrs.
hap on South Day near the in- Wendler with the centerpiece
. tersection of Mansfield, of yellow gladiolas. -----
Ahrens’ car suffered con- .
siderable damage when he ran A
over the curb and collided with Henry A. ATCUS@
a utility pole. He was tick============-------=---=---==--=== =====
eted for negligent collision. Dies In Hospital
s In the other city accident, -
nounced Academic Dean Hen- ge: Dorchen. Lene Droemer. m .
-Giddings: " John Elick. Bell-at :45 3. m. Sunday, Sam Henry A. Krause, 69, of1600 .
c. ... ee.. e. ..... uel Calton,Jr. of Brenham was s. Jackson St., died in a Bren-
ticketed for following too clo- ham hospital Saturday at 8:30
sely in an accident with Edwin a.m.
Henry Rosenbaum, also of Funeral services were held
Brenham, in the 300 block of at St. Paul's Lutheran Church
North Park. There was light in Brenham Monday a 250
p.m. with the Rev. Thomas
Swygert officiating. Burial
was in the Prairie Lee Cem-
etery. The Brenham Memorial
Chapel was hi charge of arran-
gements.------------Z
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Lena Boortz Krause of
Brenham; three sons, Ervin
- H. Krause, Burney E. Krause
and Milton W. Krause, all of -
Brenham; two daughters, Mrs.
Welton Kuehne of Garland and
Mrs. Clyde Walker of Canyon
City, Colo.; ten grandchil-
dren; one great grandchild; .
and two sisters, Mrs. Willie
Naumann and Mrs. Fritz Nau-
mann, both of Brenham.
City Budget
Hearing Set
The public hearing on the'
City of Brenham operating
budget for the 1969-70 fiscal
year will be held at the regu-
Three Wrecks
Occur Sunday
Own person remains hospit-
alised today as a result of the
most serious of three acci-
ACCIDENT DESTROYS *GCODWILL’ -At 9:15 a. m. today,
another wreck occurred on Market St at the HEB parking
lot This car driven by Billie R. Spiller, Rt 1, Brenham,
ran into the Goodwill Industries Deposit Box at the HEB
lot after being hit by another car driven by Percy Layton
Ferguson of Plainview. Mrs. Spiller was taken to Bohne
Memorial Hospital after receiving nose injuries. Her car
received considerable damage as shown here while damage
to the Ferguson vehicle was moderate.
County Chamber of Commer-
ce in Brenham on Thursday,
Sept. 12, 1968, from 9 a. m.
was endorsed by the chair-
man of the 92-vote Michigan
until 12, noon to discuss long delegation, Sen. Philip A.
hrey told the Ohio delegation term financing, management Hart,
today it could put him over the assistance and aid in obtain- -. - , , *.
, top on the first ballot for the ing government contracts. A few hours later, a two- tement
Democratic presidential nom- room “Draft Kennedy for Pre- City Commission tonight
~ ination. TOUR OF MEXICO sident” headquarters was op- City manager Charlie Blum
WASNGTON (UPI)- For- Mrs. Max Hoffmann and Mrs. ened in a downtown Chicago said that in addition to pre- , — -
==E = ==== ==== Teakrentam bitsu teamed
heart attack, ten days. governors indicated they These utility departments s mhoriam
shared the views of Sen, Geo- have not previously been run Carolyn Ann Ashorn and m ent . .
rge S. McGovern, who is seek- within the structure of ad- Carol Wiesepape, both from Others who were named to
the presidential nomina- vance operating Blum Brenham, have been named to, the distinguished honor are
non mimseu. en me- the ^ College Honor Roll Sara Ann Barton, Cladings;
City manacer Blum will a upon completion of the second . Larry S. Bassett, Giddings,
so have reports for council semester summer school, an- Ronald B. Carroll, La Gran-
- concerning his investigation nounced Academic Dean Hen- ge; Dorchen. Lene Droemer.
Into the operation of a mun- ry J. Boehm
icipal slaughter house; are- Ville; Betty Fife, San Jacin-
port on the gas leakage sur- To be eligible for the hon- to: Mary Fuqua, Navasota;
vey; and a report on arecom- or roll, a student must carry Forrest Green, Yoe; Gladys
mendation for standard taxi at least six semester hours of Hermann, Bellville; Dan Mc-
fares to the Brenham airport college work, making no fail- Evoy Hempstead; Linda Me- ..... .... ......
and return, — ing grades, and earn a grade- Manus, Channelview; Dale damage to both cars.
installation of a traffic light point ratio of 2.25. Meyer, Columbus; Robert The lone county mishap took
at Main & Park Streets win Schumacher, Hempstead; Lin- place at 9:45 p.m. and invol-
The honor roll for the se-da Vail, Hempstead; Dorothyved minor damage to a car
cond summer term included Whiting, Jome; Mary Ann Ze- .
18 students out of an enroll- ttel, Bellville. (Continued on page 6)
President Hubert H. Hump-
lar 7:30 p.m. meeting of the
City manager Charlie Blum
said that in addition to pre-
BISD Faculty Meeting Thursday,
All Students To Register Friday have talked to the send-
- The tower’ al faculty and in- lum. Super intenden t H. W. E1- said, “It is perfectly clear to
service meeting for all pro- kenhorst reported today. me--and he has told the Am-
Tescionat. Personnel or the individual faculties will erican public twice-that he
School have their in-service meet- does not want to get involved
District will be held at 9 im, ings in each of the schools for in 1968. 1 would think any rea-
Thursday, Aug. 29, in the Br. the remainder of the day on sonable persons would under-
•ham High School auditor- - Aug. 29.. ... stand that.
Registration for all stu- Gov. Harold Hughes of Iowa
dents is scheduled from 8:30 declared: “Until Ted gives ________________
a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Aug. ■ some indication, I think it begin Tuesday morning, the
* tee *** ******** ” would be very difficult to ask city manager concluded,
more of his family and of him
For Miss Woghorst 30, 1968. The anternoon on
r J Aug. 30 will be used for in-
Rites Held Sunday • service meetings and prepa-
. . ration for classes.
Funeral services for Miss-------
Frieda Weghorst, 76, of 305 E.
Cottage St., Houston, who died
in Houston Friday, were held
at the Brenham Memorial Ch-
apel Sunday at 2 p.m. with the
Rev. Thomas Swygert offici- pi.e N. C.L
, ating. Burial was in the Pra- Ales Red venddy
irje Lea Cemetery. - us. .
Survivors include one sis- LOF MIS. KemmeTT
personally. They have given so « .. - - Burns
much. Personally, I think Ted Mlles burToR $
All - classes are scheduled doesn’t want to be considered .— —-------— - . _
to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 3, for either the No. I or 2 spot.” Of Galyeston Dies -
1968. School buses will begin n „ -
their regular routes 00 Sept. Despite the budding move
regular route, - for Kennedy, Vice President
-________________Hubert H. Humphrey remained
4 a heavy favorite to win the pre-
KHes vunady sidential nomination--pro-
bably on the first ballot . Lothy Milroy, is the daughter
The convention manager, of Mrs. Herbert Hohlt of Br-
Democratic National Chair- enham,
Mrs. Emily Louwien Rem- man j ohn M. Balley, mean- . He was president of the Gal- j
mert, 81, widow of Otto H. while, announced a change in veston Cotton Exchange and
Remmert, died early Saturday schedule whereby the sticky
morning after a long illness, issue of credentials would be
in a Brenham rest home where taken up tonight instead of Tu-
ulte of Houston; two nephews, she had been residing. esday.
John W. Reue of Floydada and Funeral services were held —------------------—
Wm. P. Weghorst of Brenham, at 4p.m. Sunday at the Bren- Services Tame
ccossssore-ereg .ha Memorial Chapel with the . ==-----= ==-#
Verse for Toucyg noianne-surt £ For Arthur Welske
Oak Knoll Cemetery “in Bell-
ter, Mrs. Charlie Reue of
Brenham; four nieces, Mrs.
. ‘ R. J. Conrad of Houston, Miss
Y Rosa Schulte .of Austin, Mrs.
Otto C. Schlottmann of Bren-
ham and Miss Gertrude Seb-
For they considered not the
miracle of the loaves: for
their heart was hardened. -
Mark 6:52.
Hardened hearts cling to
bitterness and refuse to rem-
ember the blessing of yes-
terday, or to see the goodness
- of today.
ee e
Henry A. Krause
Miles. K. Burton, 65, prom-
inent Galveston businessman,
died Sunday morning in Gal-
veston.
His wife, the former Dor-
Board of Trade and was sen-
ior partner in the Burton In-
Wunderlich Infant’s
I Rites Held Today
1wyrorotrsarns
f of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Wunder-
■ lich, of Rt 3, Brenham, was
I dead at birth Saturday at 4:30
■ p.m. in a Brenham hospital.
• Graveside services were
I held Monday at ll a.m. at the
Prairie Lea Cemetery with the '
I Rev. Charles Davis offici-
I ating. The Brenham Memor- .
1 ial Chapel was in charge of
I arrangements.
I Survivors include his nar-xy
ents; two brothers, Fred wil-
liam and Carl Henry Wunder-
lich; one sister, Linda Sue
Wunderlich; and his grand-
parents, Willie Wunderlich at
Rt. 3, and Mr. and Mrs Chas.
- Steinfeld of Cedar HUl.
surance Agency.
Funeral services will be
held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in
*-59222"
Survivors include his wi-
dow, Mrs. Dorothy Milroy
Arthur w. Henske 64, of Burton; a daughter, Mrs. Jack
2404 Airline Drive, died in the Elliott, and a son, Robert S.
Bellville Hospital Saturday at Burton; three grandchildren,
6:30 p.m Terence Miles Burton, James
.2 . Funeral services will be Kirk Elliott and Tracy Lynn
Braunfels and Bennett Lou- held at tbe St. James Luther- Elliott; three sisters, Mrs.
men of Galveston; one sister, u Church of New Wehdem Marjorie Burton Curry, Mrs.
Mrs. H. A. Krueger of Bren- Tuesday at 3 p.m. with the Clayton Claasen and Mrs. Jane
ham. • Rev. Willard Rother official- Burton Pinchard, all of Hous-
ing. Burial was in the Prairie ton; five step children, Mrs.
Lea Cemetery- The Brenham Ann Matthews, Miss Gall Mc-
Memorial Chapel is in char- Leod and Douglas McLeod of
go of arrangements. Galveston, and Mrs. E. J.
Survivors include his wife, Macinerney and V. W. Me- .
Mrs. Meta Arning Henske of Leod, Jr., both of Houston.
Brenham; one daughter, Mrs.
Leeland Rinn of Brenham; one
brother, Otto Henske of Hous-
ton; two sisters, Mrs. Otto
Lueckemeyer of Houston and
Mrs. Henry Loesch of Bell-
ville
ville.
Survivors include three br-
others, Louis Louwien of Bell-
ville, Rudolph Louwien of New
.Around
Town
Be BY LILLIAN O’SHEA 1
JUNIOR GIRLS CHAMPS—Kelm's Hayriders are the 1968 softball champions of the Junior
• Girls League. Shown with the winners trophy from left to right, kneeling. Delores Buchalla,
Faye Lehrmann. Janie Buerger, Sharon Schulze and Tammy Keene. Second row, Milton
Lorenz, the coach, Linda Rodenbeck, Jeanette Gaskamp, Linda Faithauer, Eunice Lorenz,
and Karen Ladewig. Back row, Janet Lorenz, Patsy Kelm, Carolyn Lehrmann, Marilyn
Lehrmann, Denise Thiel and Ruth Lorenz, the manager.
Enjoyed being among the many friends of MR. and MRS.
ROY STOLZ who hosted an open house honoring son
REA ROY who is with Uncle Sam's Army and spent a short
time at home before going on to Kansas to enter the Army's
school of radio broadcasting and be is sure to be among
the best in his field....Congratulations to Miss THUSNELDA
HUESKE who has retired after 35 dedicated years as one
of the state's outstanding teachers with the last 16 years in
the Brenham system teaching the youngsters of the third
grade. She will be missed in the profession she served
so well....Good to see young MICHAEL KMIEC out of the
hospital and on the mend.... Folks were handing out the com-
pliments to JIM TOM HOUSE and his fine staff for the great
job of producing "My Three Angels" that was enjoyed by
large crowds on both nights of its show n.BUDDY FIS‘7 ,
- LOWELL RENLOG and Fair President HAROLD
ECKERT gave the Fair Queen candidates an enthusiastic
pep talk as they went forth to seek the grand prise by selling
the largest number of fair tickets in the history of me big
show.....Good to see old friend and former Brenham lad.
BILL YATES in town over the weekend. RICK hartley who
is going great as a TV newsman all smiles on making the
grade in the Air National Guard...... Congratulations to
MELVIN RILEY and GARY ALSTON who came home with
those nice trophies from summer camp.
As Democratic Convention Gets Underway--
Texas Delegation Surprisingly Solid In Support Of Connally
in Texas. of the 104 Texas votes.
Connally, who had said last Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-
week that Humphrey was ig- Tex., a member of the chal-
noring Texas said he had lenge group, said he believes
been in frequent contact with the insurgent group "repre-
Humphrey and said there had sents the majority of the Dem-
been "an increased flow of ocratic feeling in Texas."
communications"/ McCarthy supporters are
- expected to ask the conven-
The governor promised to tion Tuesday to seat the chai-
support the party’s nominee lengers along side the Con-
and said there was no talk of nolly dalopation and vivo them
on the delegation agreed to
honor the favorite son com-
mitment. State AFL-CIO pr-
esident Hank Brown-, Walter
Hall of Dickinson and Benton
Musslewhite of Lufkin, all op-
ponents of Connally in the past,
told the caucus they might want
to cast dissenting votes on
other issues, but would back
Connally as favorite son. ____ ____._____
:uss.oogee or mmneer; he had no plans to nominate Pelesstessale nodissmtee. tanonecouresec me convention: so’sememmnoz end.gvethem -
5*2 utherk Iaon and assun.e. Johnson haent with Conic,, was voiced - left open the possibility of
—--by anyone at the caucus. Despite this apparent har- The other Texas floor fight walking out over the unit rule
, mony, the Texas delegation is being planned by the regu- issue
Connally said he was not yet faced two possible floor fi-lar delegation over the unit.ssue.
ready to release the delegates red POs540 1 rule issue
or indicate his preference am- € - The convention rules com-
' ong the presidential candi- A challenge delegation of 84 mittee recommended that no
dates. But he described Vice -liberals, mostly supports of delegate be forced to abide
President Hubert Humphrey. Son. Eugenc-McGorthy, aavi-by unit rule, which would
Weather
THUNDERSHOWERS
, Partly cloudy and warm
through Tuesday with widely
scattered, mostly afternoon or
evening showers or thunder-
winds 5 to 12 noph. Low ex-
pected tonight low 70s. High
expected Tuesday mid 90s.
Readings for 24 hour per-
iods ending at 7 a.m. on each
date: Aug. 24, Max. 95. Min,
CHICAGO (UPI) - Texas
delegates today stopped talk-
ing about nominating Presi-
dent Johnson and gathered with
surprising unanimity behind
the favorite son candidacy of
Gov. John Connally.
Connally squelched the Jo-
hnson talk by telling a news
conference "We’re not here
to promote a draft.” He said
bloc.
Tom Gordon of Abilene, a
rules committee member, wr-
ote a minority report and got
enough sign, ires from other
states to take the issue to the
floor.
However, Gordon conceded
changes of winning the unit
rule tight were not good, and
Connally said “‘If me
just lose."’ Earlier____
left open the possibility of
was sticking by his March 31
decision not to run.
At a two-hour closed door
caucus, the Texas delegates
made it clear they would stay
with Connally as a favorite
70. 7 a.m. 70; Aug. 25, Max,
94. Min. 70. 7 a.m. 71. Rain son even if the convention re- _ .......------ wy .w. --
.89; Aug. 26, Max: 94.” Min, leases them from unit rule. , as the front-runner and the ved in Chicago Sunday and require Texas and four other
71. 7 a.m. 72, . . Even anti-Connally liberals candidate who would run best promised to battle for a share states to cast their votes as a
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Chambers, Bert L., Jr. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 171, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1968, newspaper, August 26, 1968; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1647957/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.