The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1995 Page: 4 of 64
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Opinion - Editorial
PPLTORVAI
Window
Hop on the Liedertafel bandwagon
on
Main Street
Now that the preservation and restoration of the Liedertafel is
coming closer to reality, it is evident that more support for the
project will be needed to get the hall in good shape. A contribu-
tion of any size will be accepted and appreciated. Anyone who
is interested in this piece of Sealy history and has not yet made
a contribution, is invited to do so. Or perhaps you may want to
be a volunteer and help do some of the work.
The Liedertafel is one of this city’s oldest buildings, and its
unique eight sides are of a rare design. To save it and revitalize
it is a major undertaking, but the Sealy Area Historical Society
has assumed that challenge. Support from other individuals or
concerns will be necessary to get the job done.
When the building is ready for use, it will bring pride to the
townspeople, many of whom remember it as the former home
of the annual Sealy Firemen's Frolic, where people gathered and
mingled for many joyful hours each third Thursday in July, and
where friendships were made and relationships established for
all time.
Become genuinely interested in the face-lifting of this memo-
rable piece of Sealy's history. Join the restoration band-wagon
at your earliest opportunity.
By
WILMA PETRUSEK
sss
Brad and Adam, all of Sealy, and Phantom of the Opera Company skilled nursing care unit in the
Opal Novosad and her daughter, which would be in New Orleans, Methodist Hospital in Houston. She
Sharon Diaz and son, Cody, all of they made the several hour drive is certainly being missed, particu-
Humble. there to see the stage production, larly around the American Legion
Hattie Dietz of La Marque and They were not certain that this was Hall where she was always very
Nadine Dowdy of Pearland visited the company which Neil is touring active in the Auxiliary and was
their brother and sister-in-law, Pete with, since there are other touring interested in and participated in
and Lorrene Schiller, and family on companies of the same production, various events. Best wishes are sent
Sunday. That night they were Imagine Neil’s surprise when he her way.
overnight guests in the home of came out of the stage door after the With the former Sealy Hospital
their sister and brother-in-law, Wal- performance, to see his former building being up for sale again,
dine and Leroy Jones, and Monday Sealy friends waiting there. The some residents in the area are con-
they visited another sister and Ellerbes had planned to leave a note cerned anew over who the next
brother-in-law, Eariine and for Neil, and were probably equally owners may be. They recall the
Franklin Goebel, surprised to see him step out of the anxiety of several years ago when ’
Vassie and Joe Peters, Jr., of door. They enjoyed a nice little the facility was owned by We Care,
Houston, were in Sealy Saturday to visit together. Inc., before they sold to the Eagle
visit his parents, Mathilda and Joe A note from Marcella Shelton of Lake Community Hospital.
Peters. Fort Worth evidences that she is an James Zapalac of California vis-
Zettena to the Editor
Reader extends $100 bet
on seeing sun set in east
Dear Editor: behind the Manzano mountains.
I greatly enjoyed the most recent Theoretically it has to do with the
effort by “Scratch” Cunningham time of day in a correlative ratio
telling about his old pal from New between the spinning of the bar
Mexico, Burnet Harvey. The old stools and speed of the whiskey
fella kept asking Jim for $100, but sipping at the Blue Ribbon Bar,
Jim wouldn’t ever give it to him. I located in downtown Estancia, N.M.
would be more than willing to give “Scratch" concedes he eyeballed
ol’ Scratch $100 if he would take the eastern setting of the sun
me to New Mexico to the before he read the letters on the
Manzano mountains and just show wall of Ross' office in Madisonville,
me how the sun sets in the EAST. which required a change in his pre-
Of course we would have to be scription for eyeglasses and not
stationed in those same stools in shot glasses. Concern led
the Blue Ribbon Bar ... I’m posi- “Scratch" to consult with Dr. Ross
live that would help. Tell him to who explained the phenomenon,
put it on his new complimentary could be attributed to a “pathologi-
calendar and we’ll make that trip a cal kerato-uveal abnormality
• The crowd of 750 or more men, ardent reader of The Sealy News . ited his mother, Julia Zapalac, and
women and children attending the She made comments on the various brothers Louis and Leroy and their
Sunday afternoon’s weather was football banquet at the KC Hall columns on the editorial page, families for several days, and was
a son of surprise. Amidst the rain, Thurday night was a fine attest to which were interesting. Marcella is present for the Tiger celebration
thunder and lightning there was the admiration and respect the com- a sister of local resident, Harvel Za- Thursday night
hail, some the size of marbles in munity has for the Sealy Tigers and skoda, and aunt of Carolyn Zaskoda Thanks to Mother Nature for pro-
this community, while others re- their cite championship title. The of Sealy, Janet Faye Rapsilver of viding the bright and beautiful win-
ported larger size ice balls pelting stage w. II decorated by the Sealy San Felipe and William Frank Za- ter azaleas in bloom at several loca-
down from the sky. High Sci ool cheerleaders looked skoda of Bellville. Comments from lions about town, including Azalea
A six o'clock dinner was given more like the background for a tele- our readers are always welcome. Manor and the Sealy Professional
for outgoing, incoming and hold- vision extravaganza than a school (especially if they are nice ones). Building. What a welcome sight!
over elders of the First Presbyterian function. The girls did a beautiful Latest word on Henrietta And then the frost came Tuesday
Church at the education building job jn designing and decorating the Kubena, who was seriously injured morning.
Sunday. A half-hour visitation with wall and the stage, in a fall some months ago, is that All of you football fans...have a
a variety of hors'd ouvres preceded It was good to see former Sealy she is doing well, but still in a great Super Sunday.
the meal of ham with added side resident, Jim Moore, his wife, Dot- rar . . 11.
dishes and vegetable condiments, tie,anddaugh ter,Jeanie from hA 691 VA W/C deadlines
plus desserts, iced tea and coffee. Round Rock in our town Saturday. C ooc NEwe OvQcill
The dinner was a yearly compli- They had come for the grand open- News items submitted by oroaniza- pictures on a space available basis and
mem given by the Presbyterian ing of the Best Western Inn and tions uos naividuas, EIc. SnOUd De al cannot guarantee they Wil be printed in a
Women. , u Garden Lounge on Friday. It was The Sealy News’office no later than 3 specific issue.
Albina and TuckerLoescher Moore who brought the Hsiehs to p.m. Monday prior to the date of publica- However, The News attempts to print
hosted the members of the Novosad Seajy 18 years ago, and sold them tion. - — excluding unsigned letters — accord-
family with a late Christmas dinner his Ranch Motel. Items for the Briefs' section on Page 1 ing to space available in any particular
and annual get-together Saturday, When Dave and Cheryl Ellerbe, are to be turned in by noon Monday, issue, the bulk of stories, subject to edit-
January 14. Present were Mary formerly Sealy residents now resid- Photographs brought in for publication ing, brought in.
Gajewski, Joe and Lillian Novosad, ing in Florida, read in this publica- must be in the office by 5 p.m. Friday. Thank you for your cooperation in
Bill and Karen Loescher and sons, tion that Neil Badders was with the The News uses articles and stories and meeting the deadlines.
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Sighting on something
that doesn’t seem right
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for weekend chili cookoff. 1 was just obligated to
it is natural that the old should extol the days of pay heed to the building — because of the
their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; upside down sign that was tacked way up high
the sick, the season of their vigor, and the disap- on its front
pointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. Every time I cruised =========
— Caleb Bingham through Zorn and saw 1221
year from now.
realigning the focal point of con-
I sure enjoy your newspaper and verging light rays in conjunction
the goings on in your town ... with vestibular nerve conduction
down the road. ° altered by liquid intake." However,
Sincerely, there's still the matter of the
Carl H. Ross, O.D. "Roswell Incident" pertaining to a
Madisonville flying saucer that crashed in New
EDITOR’S NOTE: "Scratch" re- Mexico and supposedly sighted by
spends to the unique phenomena several reputable nearly-normal
of the sun setting in the east people.
SISD superintendent responds
to staying put because of taxes
Dear Editor.
At that time the Sealy I.S.D. had a
I feel it imperative that I clarify flat $5,000.00 homestead exemption
some misunderstanding about the and an additional $10,000.00 for
Sealy I.S.D. taxes your reader from age sixty-five or older.
Spring Branch I.S.D. talked about In 1994 the administration rec-
in the January 5,1995 issue, ommended and the Sealy Board of
First of all the Supreme Court of Trustees passed a 20% homestead
Texas declared the County Ed- exemption. The board also left the
ucation Districts unconstitutional tax rate at $1.37 that was raised
which also eliminated the 20%
county homestead exemption. That
court decision was made after the
deadline to allow school districts to
pass on any additional exemptions.
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hand the Spring Branch tax rate has
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Let’s just compare what a tax-
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Branch on a $100,000.00 house to
the same house in the Sealy District
1993 Spring Branch $100,000
house less 20% exemption equals
See LETTER, Page 5
that upside down sign
I’d meditate the final
nine or 10 miles into
Seguin on how it came
to be nailed up there.
Upside down.
It was a habit of mine
back when I was young.
To see something not
quite right, then specu-
late and muse on why
and how it came to be not quite right.
After all, we all contend we do the best we
can. But, sometimes that is not enough.
You see, that upside down sign read “Cafe.”
And whoever tacked it up there didn’t live up to
somebody’s expectation. Much less, his own.
Anyway, after some six or so months I came
to the conclusion in my depleted little mind on
how that sign happened to be hung. I reckoned
that perhaps the proprietor of the place, who
possibly served double-duty as fry cook, con-
tracted out to some old local boy to go out there,
just as soon as he finished fussing with his cof-
fee, and hang the sign.
Maybe offered him a chicken-fried steak for
his trouble.
I took it a bit further and gave thought of the
trouble that man went to. I mean getting a lad-
der and propping it up there against the build-
000,
Once upon a time, back when I was young, it
was my custom to travel State Highway 123 on
a daily basis.
That was during the Seventies, a grand era in
my personal time frame. A span of years that I
was pretty much free of worry. Considered a
free spirit by my contemporaries. Pleased with
being alive with four working limbs after a stint
in Southeast Asia.
Myself and others in the Seventies didn’t fret
with the frustrations of programing a VCR. Or
the threat of AIDS. And the worst that ever hap-
pened during those best of times was waiting in
gas lines at service stations due to an energy cri-
sis that hampered the movement of the movers
that love the road. Such as I.
I’m also partial to the mid-Seventies because
1 met and experienced a whirlwind courtship
with the partner that still tolerates me today.
Anyway, State Highway 123 was a stretch of
some 20-odd miles of two-lane, at the time,
connecting me from a roof over my head in San
Marcos to a newspaper job in Seguin.
About midway between the two communities,
remained what was left of a one-horse town
called Zorn. Perhaps three buildings made up
the hamlet, but there was one that always com-
manded my attention.
It was an old frame structure with a tin roof. ing. Climbing the rungs with that heavy sign.
Semi-narrow in the front, possibly 20-feet wide, Heck, it had to have weighed more than a case
and extending back some 60 or so feet of longnecks. It was a big sign.
Each morning, when I traveled the road the In my mind, I imagined him hammering a
long-vacant building, located offto the left on a nail there on the left, and while he was perspir-
side road, would arrest my attention like a beau- ing and thinking of that steak and gravy that
tiful woman in a crowd of a dozen or so ata was his on the ground, the sign probably slipped
down and he just kept going clockwise with it
until putting the finishing blows to it without
giving it any more thought
I wondered how he felt that day after com-
pleting his carpenter chore.
Possibly crawled down off that ladder awful
relieved. Stepped back some 30 yards or so to
admire his work. The furrows in his brow were
most likely as deep as the plowed field he was
standing in as he muttered, “What the hell
have I done went and done?”
Because when he witnessed that sign upside
down, he most likely conceded he didn’t do as
written in his verbal job description.
But, I figured he could have had some press-
ing things on his mind that day for doing a job
that would turn out, not well done nor deserv-
ing a pat on the back. Much less a chicken-
fried steak.
He could’ve had a fight or words earlier in
the day with the little lady, or maybe, he was
upset with himself for not having a little lady
to fight or have words with. Then again, he
might have been suffering from a hangover
that hurt his head just awful.
Unfortunately, all the speculation 1 directed
to that sign went for naught Like the durn fool
I can be at times, one day 1 decided to slow
down as a case of curiosity caused me to
swing the Chevy down the side road and stop
in front of the shabby building. For a closer
look. And up close, I could see the faded let-
tering that once upon a time read “Zorn
Garage.” The letters were right side up.
Which prompted me to reason that the cafe
sign merely served as a recyclable backdrop
for a mechanic to salvage and scribble his
place of business over.
Some things, they say, are better left
unchecked. Yet even today, when I find
myself down the road, I still sometimes won-
der where that cafe sign was first hung — right
side up.
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There e who said the community of Sealy
waited 6 to do something about the And right up to
Sealy Tigers winning the 1994 Class 3-A high and following the
school football championship. championship
Well, maybe so. Maybe we should have put game with Atlanta.
on a big parade followed by a barbecue and All the Houston
The song is over but
the memory lingers on
sports. he called, “the level of intensity,” they were
I noticed, too, during the Atlanta final game able to maintain to accomplish what they did.
the Astrodome play-by-play announcer took A lot of people might call it affection, which
time to remind the crowd that in the two pre- probably had a lot to do with why ol’ coach
vious games that day, both South Texas teams couldn’t deliver his closing speech.
had lost That was good news to anyone even in these days of monster football players,
borderline superstitious, wasn’t it? even in the small schools, it’s gotten almost to
Visiting with Buddy Trotter at last week’s a point where big is good, bigger is better and
appreciation banquet, I told him that after a biggest is best But the 1994 Tigers threw that
few minutes into the first quarter with Atlanta assumption out the window. As it turned out,
I figured they might split up the announcing, they weren’t the biggest; they were just
street dance...Texas style, you know. But from papers and major
Ear Luedecke the looks of things out at the KC Hall last TV stations were
Jim Grimes Thursday night, it was apparent to me that not so busy boo-hooing
Jim Cunningham many if any people had forgotten what hap- about Katy gettin’
caroiyn criner pened. beat they Hardly
Joanie Griffin And like me, you probably detected an air noticed that Sealy was the only team in South You know, let their (Atlanta’s) home game wound tighter.
of pride and accomplishment that surrounded Texas to come up with a class championship. announcer do the first half and then ours Talking about size and speed, I’m reminded
Herbert Kollatschny the players, coaches and just about everyone Well, we did get some coverage from HSE (Buddy) would come in for the second. Well, of the Gene Sellings days at A&M. Talking
Opal Kovar there, regardless of how much they had to do and Channel 51. And Giff Nielsen, the if you were there you know it didn’t turn out about Harvey Aschenbeck, a Bellville prod-
Claudia Janecek with the championship. So I reckon it wasn’t Channel 11 sports director, did take time to that way, uct. Gene said, “Ol‘Harv ain’t the biggest and
Ferf-e Xanck too bad after all. chopper out here during the banquet to deliver All this reminds me of comedian Rodney he ain’t the fastest, but I wish I had a bunch
_______________________• And after all, there will be enough medals a plaque recognizing the Tigers as the top Dangerfield’s lament, “I don’t get no respect.” more just like him."
The News welcomes expressions of all view, floating around the community to remind any- team in Class 3-A Texas schoolboy football. So as I run all of this through my probably Herbie Kollatschny put it this way in his
point from readere. Letters should be kept one who might tend to forget which was commendable. And Channel 13, overly prejudicial mind, I wonder. Is it delib- assessment of the Tigers: “Those little x’W+’s
dnealon. They noosr include signature and It would naturally have been counter-pro- they had a cameraman out here, too. erate, or ignorance? Or maybe what all these will hit you.”
wild mailing address. Pseudonyms and ini- ductive and contrary to the festive mood that But on the brighter side, I thought it was people need is a good geography lesson. But this I think, says in a few words, what
tieh win not beared. Because of the volume prevailed, but all the time I was sitting there I real neat that Sealy News staffer Herbie During last Thursday’s program and stand- the 1994 Tiger organization was all about:
Ireier “uene kept thinking that there should have been Kollatschny got one of those championship ing around afterwards I got a real good feeling You are champions because you refused to
TERS TO THE NEWS, ili Main Street, some kind of award given for the absolutely medals. With him on the job, you never have about how Coach T. J. Mills and his staff and be anything else
P.O. Drawer 480, Sealy, Texas 77474. terrible media coverage the team got outside to wonder what’s going on in Sealy High the team appear to get along. I guess it’s what —T. J. Mills
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