The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1974 Page: 1 of 35
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SERVING LEXINGTON, DIME BOX, LINCOLN, SERBIN, NORTHRUP, PAIGE, LEDBETTER, FEDOR & GIDDINGS
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY A NATIVE LEE COUNTIAN -- PREUSS PRINTING CO. INC.
VOLUME 84
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY, TEXAS 78942
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1974
NUMBER 51
Viewpoint
BY B.P.
EYE SPECIALIST - It’s really
good to see that Giddings and
Lee County have attracted
another member of the medical
profession.
Dr. Steve Moehlman, an eye
specialist who also performs eye
surgery, will open his office one
day a week on Wednesdays in
Giddings at Lee Memorial Hospi-
tal.
The entire community and our
entire trade area should support
this well-trained specialist You
can read more about his entire
background in medicine in an
article on the front page of this
week’s paper.
There is also a real good
chance that Giddings will have a
full-time specialist in another
field of surgery by the fall of this
year.
Plans are also being made for
a new Medical Complex to be
built in Giddings in the very near
future We’ll have more about
this later.
With five full-time doctors, two
full-time dentists along with
another dentist who hopes to soon
be practicing here full-time, the
Lee County area seems well on
its way to solving its shortage in
the medical profession In fact,
our fine medical people will be
attracting patients from other
surrounding towns as time goes
along.
Lee Memorial Hospital, which
had been going in the red each
year due to the low number of
patients admitted, is now running
very near capacity, with 25 to 30
patients on an average.
When you’ve got to get sick,
it's good to know that you can do
your doctoring and recuperating
right here at home - not off in
some neighboring town or city
where few if anyone knows you
and your relatives are placed in
real hardship just to make daily
visits.
Giddings now has quite a bit to
offer as a place to live and raise
a family.
And with my fourth child on
the way, it makes my old heart
happy to see the good schools and
other opportunities which this
county and Central Texas has to
offer for the future. Being so
close to two major colleges (A&M
and 1'1 along with a very
top-notch junior college at Bren-
ham is also good for our young
people
And being only 55 miles away
from the State Capitol and
situated in between four major
cities in Texas is also quite an
asset, along with our very good
highways.
DISENCHANTED - Quite a
few Giddings citizens have
become disenchanted lately with
the Giddings State School, located
just east of the city limits
The boys and girls confined
there have been getting off the
campus more and more lately,
with several cases of burglary
perpetrated by these youngsters
During the first two years of
operation of this school, there
were very few complaints from
local citizens about how the
school was being run or about
trouble from the youths there. It
was kept under fairly tight
security and only the very mild
disciplinary cases and first-of-
fenders were brought to the
Giddings State School campus.
Then last year there was a real
shakeup in the administration of
the Texas Youth Council, which
See VIEWPOINT, page 7
Trophies Awarded To Little
League, Pee Wee Teams
Firemens 4th Of July
Celebration Thursday
LITTLE LEAGUE ALL STARS
- Selected to the Little League
All Star team this season are, left
to right, kneeling: Lester
Markert, Scott Steen, Wayne
Galipp, Steve Christiansen,
Michael Janda, Gary Pietsch,
Brian Jonke, and Kevin Kasper:
LITTLE LEAGUE 1ST PLACE
- Winning first place in the Little
League this season were the
Braves. Pictured left to right
kneeling: Clyde Markert, Bruce
Schatte, Michael Janda, Stan
Chapman, Larry Mitschke, Brian
PEE WEE ALL STARS --
Selected to the Pee Wee All Star
Team this season are. left to
right, kneeling: Reginald Davis,
Randy Sanders, Evan Gonzales.
standing: John Green, Michael
Walthers, Alton Boriack, Mark
Goodson, David Noack, Thomas
Lara, Larry Mitschke, Calvin
Farrack, and Stephen Janda. The
All Stars will play Sealy at
Bellville on Monday, July 15 at •
p.m.
The big annual Giddings Volun-
teer Fire Department Fourth of
July Celebration is scheduled for
Thursday, July 4 at the Lee
County Fairgrounds.
In the morning, over 4,000
pounds of beef and pork barbecue
will be available off the pit Plate
dinners will also be served and
tables are available on the
grounds.
The Hobbie horses will be
running from 10 a m until 10
p.m. for all the kids, and there
will be games all afternoon long
for the adults.
The Blue Sunsets will provide
music all afternoon. And there
will be a baseball game at 3 p.m.
pitting Giddings against Plum
Concessions will also be avail-
able and the fireboys will also
Movies At Library
Discontinued
Temporarily
The Saturday afternoon movies
at the library will have to be
discontinued temporarily due to
the very poor attendance for the
past few months. The movies
have been conducted as a public
service with volunteer helpers for
the benefit of the children with a
nominal charge of 50 cents per
child to help pay for the cost of
See MOVIES, page 10
have a Hamburger stand for
those who want to eat the supper
meal on the grounds.
Admission to the grounds is
free. There will also be free ice
water and coffee.
A dance at night at Airline Hall
will feature music by Johnny
Lyon & the Nu Notes
5 Giddings FFA
Boys To Attend
FFA Convention
5 members of the Giddings
Future Farmers of America
Chapter will attend the 46th State
Bage and Gary Pietsch; standing FFA convention in San Antonio,
Troy Eichler, “Mgr." Milton Texas, on July 10-12 in the San
Bage, David Noack, Stephen Antonio Convention Center. The
Janda, Timothy Jenke, Calvin
Farrack, Brian Jenke, Kevin
Kasper, and “Mgr." Gary
Sander.
Keith Oitmann, Wesley Green,
Tim Kasper, and Monty Melcher;
standing: Larry McNeil, Daryl
Janda, Terry Steglich, Ronnie
Namken and Jerry Mowery.
Prison Termed No Threat To Bastrop
BASTROP - They don't build
federal prisons like they used to
That was the idea conveyed to
about 50 Bastrop County and
Central Texas citizens by three
officials from the Federal Bureau
of Prisons in Washington last
Thursday
Visiting here to check out a
possible location for a regional
detention center for youthful
offenders was Norman Carlson,
bureau director; Gary Mote,
assistant director; and George
Wilkerson, head of the bureau's
property division
The proposed site is a 170-acre
tract north of Bastrop in the
Camp Swift area recently vacat-
See PRISON, page 7
Fayette landowners
Not Sold On LCRA
Coal Burning Plant
Lower Colorado River Authori-
ty and Bechtel Corp. officials
apparently failed Friday night to
assure residents in La Grange
that the coal-fired power plant
planned for Fayette County will
not be harmful to the area.
The 22 landowners who are
fighting construction of the joint
Austin-LCRA plant left the two
and a half hour meeting
unconvinced and vowed to con-
tinue their court fight “until the
full truth is known under due
process of law.”
The $400 million plant is
planned for a 6,400 acre site east
of La Grange and is to be
constructed later this decade.
The construction plan has stirred
considerable controversy here
and LCRA officials scheduled the
Friday night meeting at La
Grange High School in an effort
to resolve the issue.
“We’re going to try to build the
best and cleanest power plant
that’s ever been built,” LCRA
general manager Charles Herring
told the crowd of about 300
persons. Herring said the LCRA,
the project manager, will attempt
to buy the land but if necessary
will resort to condemnation
proceedings
Other LCRA officials and
Bechtel representatives presented
considerable evidence to explain
’ reasons for selection of the
theme for the 46th convention is
See FFA, page 10
Grass Fire At St • Fayette County site, to justify the
, A use of coal to generate electricity
Mary s Church and to explain environmental
The Giddings Fire Department safeguards to be used.
answered one fire alarm during LCRA Chief engineer Elof
the past week Soderberg and his assistant, Dale
It was at St Mary’s Church at Tucker, said the demand for
Pin Oak on Friday, June 28 at power by the utility s 800,000
5:10 p.m. where a grass fire in a customers is growing at a rate of
pasture was quickly extinguished See COAL PLANT, page 10
1ST PLACE PEE WEE - Robert Kuehn; standing: Monty
Winning first place In the Pee Melcher, Reginald Davis.
Wee Little League this season Michael Blasig, Larry Gaines,
was the "Mels." Pictured left to Ricky Ebner, and David
right are, kneeling: Daryl Janda, D
Evan Gonzales, Randy Sanders, Janda and George Pohorelsky Jr.
Paul Weiser, Stacy Newton,
Ebner,
and
David
Pohorelsky. Managers Robert
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