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• UB8CRIPTION PRICES
Fayette £ Adjoining
Countlaa:
Ona Yaar ___________$3-00
Six Months .......... $1.75
Thraa Montha _______$1.00
La Grange City Oallvery:
One Yaar ........... $3.50
$ Moa. $1.90; 3 Moa. $1.00
READ BY MORE PEOPLE IN FAYETTE COUNTY THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER
THE FAYETTE COUNTY RECORD
SUBSCRIPTION
RATES
Other Tun
Counties:
One Year - _
Six Montha
$1.90
Three Monthe
$1.00
Out-of-State
One Year
$4.00
6 Moa. $2.25;
3
Moe. $1.25
Published Twice Weekly By The Farmers Publishing Company, Ltd., La Grange, Texas
Devoted to the Interests of the People of Fayette County and of Texas
VOLUME XXXXI
LA CHANGE, TEXAS (In tue Heart of CRIDAland), TUESDAY, FEB 12, 1963
NUMBER 30
NEW BUILDING
SITE APPROVED
BY MT. CALVARY
I
Congregation Ok’s
Zion Location Here;
Plans Study Is Next
The congregation of Mt.
Calvary Lutheran church
mounted the first big hurdle j
toward the building of a new
house of worship when, in a
special meeting recently, they
decided on the location for the
proposed edifice.
They voted that it is to be
built on the site of the present
church here in La Grange, on
N. F'ranklin St.
Next step is for the execu-
tive building committee to in-
spect church buildings in this
part of the state which are of
the type and architecture that
would be desired here, said
Herbert F. Lange, chairman of
publicity and promotion.
The building program is a
long-range project, and it will
perhaps be some time before
plans are jelled to the point
where actual construction will
begin, he said.
The building committee in-
cludes Harvey W. Roitsch as
chairman and Gus Michalk,
Harry Gaertner, Wilbert Diers,
Walter Schneider. Eugene
Winkler. Clarence Peters, Her-
man Koepke and Mr. Lange.
The Mt Calvary congrega-
tion was formed just a little
more than a year ago by the
merger of Zion Lutheran
church here and Trinity Lu-
theran church at Trinity Hill
Resident pastor is the Rev T
H. Graalmann, and Walter
Oeltjen is president of the
congregation.
Girl Scout Council
Plans Activities
The Girl Scout Neighbor-
hood Council of La Grange
met Wednesday, Feb. fi, at 9 a
m. at the Girl Scout Hut.
The president, Mrs. Wilbert
Jaster, called the meeting to
order. After routine business,
1he new slate of officers for the
coming year were voted on.
They are the following: Pre-
sident, Mrs. Wilbert Jaster:
vice president, Mrs. F Fuchs;
secretary, Mrs. Glenn Koether;
treasurer, Mrs. Elmond Wea-
sels: camp chairman, Mrs. T
J Flournoy; program chair-
man, Mrs. Edgar Schulz: or-
ganization chairman. Mrs V
Nunn; registrar chairman, Mrs.
James Schultz; publicity
chairman, Mrs. Robert J. Kal-
lus.
Girl Scout Week was dis-
cussed. It will he March 10-17.
It was decided to observe Sun-
day, March 10, as Girl Scout
Sunday and the leaders will
decide what each troop will do
All of the leaders are planning
on taking their Girl Scouts to
the Girl Scout Birthday Party
on March 9 at Austin Also, the
annual cash drive will be held
during Girl Scout Week. Mrs
Flournoy will serve as chair-
man of the drive.
Since the Girl Scout pro-
gram will be changed in Sep-
tember of this year, there will
be several training courses gi-
ven for the leaders, assistants,
and neighborhood council. The
first of such training courses
will be held March 13 in Bren-
ham. Anyone interested in
working with the Girl Scouts
this coming year is advised to
notify the president so that
they can plan to attend there
courses.
Next Tuesday, Feb 12, an-
other Neighborhood Council
meeting will be held and Miss
Nancy Iximax from Austin
will attend. Everyone on the
council is requested to attend
the meeting, at the Scout Hut
at 9:30 a. m. __________
MAJ. SNEED AWARDED OAK LEAF CLUSTER
S. A. NEGRO DIES
IN AlITO MISHAP
Iff COTTON
ACRES HERE’ IS AT schulenbubg
PLEA BY OCBA
Organization Asks
All Who Can Seek
Additional Acres
A 23-year-okl San Antonio
Negro became Fayette coun-
ty’s second traffic fatality of
1963 early Sunday morning.
Dennis Loude was fatally
injured when his 1950 Mer-
cury struck a bridge abutment
a mile and a half east of Sehu-
lenburg on US Highway 90 at
about 2.30 a. in. Sunday.
Loude died shortly after ar-
hospital
Man In Space Show
Set Here Tuesday
The Old Cotton Belt Associ-
ation of Texas last weekend rival at the Youen’s
came out with a strong plea in Weimar,
for growers to help keep Fay-! _ „ . . , „ .
ette county’s cotton acreage by | _ 8 ro m"n ^onart . wan o
requesting ,11 the additional Schulenburg who investigat-
, ed, said Leslie Evans of Flato-
acres possible by the Friday,, .
Feb 15 deadline ,n,a was 8 P«ssenRer ,he car-
__ OCBA officials said that 5,- H,,wever- hp "as uninjured
784 acres had been released in
this county while requests for
Sneed, S-4 Sup- | staff, USAEPG. Right is Col. j prior to hist assignment to Viet
Nam. Mrs. Sneed, the formed
Lottie Lou Greenshield, and
three sons will remain in La
Grange with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Karl Greenshield.
Maj. P. W.
port Command (center! is R,’b“" H FlsheU conunanding
, , ,, ... , , officer, Support Conunand. Ihe
shown as he receives the first i________,______...........____ . ,
award ceremony took place at
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Army For( Huachuca, Ariz.
Commendation Medal from Major and Mrs. Sneed and
Col. T. J. Seigler, left, chief of | family are now here on leave
Report ‘Worm Cases
41 FFA’S SERVE AS VIGILANTES
Vocational agriculture Rtu- worm Eradication Program by
conducting a weekly survey of
dents attending La Grange
High school have become
“screwwonn vigilantes,” ac-
cording to their teacher, Gabe
Dooley Jr.
The students are cooperating
with the Southwest Screw-
Katy Defeats Leps
By Gl-To-54 Score;
Cards Win Bunting
Katy’s Tigers pulled into a
tie for second place in the Dis-
trict 21-AA cage standings Fri-
day night with a 61-54 victory
over the La Grange Leopards
at Katy.
The Columbus Cardinals
cinched the conference flag
with a 76-48 triumph over Tom-
ball. The win was the Cards'
eight straight against no losses
in league action.
Katy led all the way in tak-
ing the win, although a Lep
surge in the second quarter
cut the advantage to three
points. The Tigers were ahead
by 13-9 at the end of the quar-
ter, led by 31-25 at half-time
and by 47-40 at the end of the
third period.
John Rhodes scored 28
points for the Bengals to lead
all scoring.
Katy also won the “B” game
with Mike Pederson of the vic-
tors counting 23 points.
Sealy comes here for a twin
bill Tuesday night, and Friday
night La Grange goes to Col-
umbus to close out district
play.
livestockmen in the area to
determine how many, if any,
serewworm infestations the
stockmen have found.
The local Future Farmers of
America are aiding in the at-
t&ttipi' to. prevent bUtt leaks of (>f their parenus,'
the serewworm, which cost the
livestock industry many mil-
Two Juveniles Are
Sent To Gatesville
Two Carmine area Negto
youths, aged 13 and 15, were
tried for theft in the county
juvenile court before Judge H.
J. Schovajsa Friday and sen-
tenced to indefinite terms at
the Gatesville School for Boys.
Two other Negro lads, 9 and
10, who also were involved,
were released into
|The quartet was arrested, by
Sheriff T. J. Flournoy, and
lions of dollars each year. Pro- ’ Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Ad-
gram officials indicated that the i ameik in connection with the
eradication effort is entering a theft of approximately $225 in
critical stage with the approach leash from the E. P. Jacob gro-
of warmer weather, and re- eery store in Carmine.
warmer
porting of this type can liter-
ally determine its success or
failure.
Mr. Dooley said he has 41
students contacting 150 live-
stockmen each week. The stu-
dents record the number of
serewworm cases each produ
additional allotments amount-
ed to only 1,871 acres.
“This leaves 3,913 acres that
will be given to some other
county unless these acres are
requested by farmers in Fay-
ette county,” a spokesman for
the organization pointed out.
“If all farmers in the county
would request only two addi-
tional acres each, these 3,913
acres would stay in the coun-
ty”
“Some day in the near fu-
ture this cotton acreage might
be valuable,” the OCBA atta-
che said as he urged cotton
growers to contact the ASC
office here and make the re-
commended “allotment saving”
requests.
An announcement in anoth-
er part of this paper gives
further details of the OCBA
plea.
i The first ’63 road fatality was
chalked up Jan. 19 when Pete
Melchor, Flatonia area Latin-
American, died in a one-car
accident on State Highway 95
five miles north of Flatonia.
The driver, Melchor’s son,
John, 25, was later charged in
the justice of the peace Pre-
cinct 1 court here with mur-
der without malice while DWI.
BERTSCH ENTERS
NEW TRIAL PLEA
Motion for a new trial in the
Edwin Bertsch murder case
was filed in the district court
here Thursday by Paul Huser
of Schuienburg, attorney for
the defendant.
District Judge J. Lee Dittert
of Bellville, who was here to
receive the motion, said he
would shortly set a date for a
hearing on the instrument. The
judge has 20 days in which to
set the hearing.
22nd District Court jury
Space Age Exhibit
Sponsored By CC;
Admission Is Free
The wonders of the Space
Age will be unfolded in La
Grange comes Tuesday, Feb.
12, when the La Grange Cham-
ber of Commerce sponsors a
one-day showing of the Man in
Space show, the nation’s out-
standing traveling space exhi-
bit.
A feature of the 1962 State
Fair of Texas, the space show
consists of a 30-foot walk
A 22nd District Court jury a model of a lunar
on Jan. 29 found Bertsch guilty ! space shil> complete with
of the murder of his daughter rau then tic instruments design-
at Plum last October and
sessed the death penalty.
The defendant has not
been formally sentenced
the judge.
Names of the youths cannot
be published because they are
juveniles in the eyes of the
law.
DOCEKALS HAVE GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. Milam Doce-
kal became the happy parents
cer discovered during the pre-' of a baby girl, weighing seven
vious week and the number of! pounds, who arrived Friday at
samples that were sent in for | Fayette Memorial hospital. The
identification by the Mission, | little miss, who has been nam-
ed Sharon Sue, was proudly
welcomed by a sister, Mrs.
Floyd (Nancy) Koslan of Aus-
tin. a brother, William Lynn
j (Billy) Docekal, a student at
I the University of Texas, and a
j three-year-old nephew, Steve
Koslan.
Local Girl In
TWIT Production
Miss Connie Roitsch, Texas
Woman’s University freshman
home economics eduction maj-
or, is a singer in the freshman
class stunt cast at Denton.
Stunts on the TWU campus are
annual musical productions
given by the four classes.
Miss Roitsch is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Roit-
sch. She was graduated from
La Grange High school where
she was an FT!A officer, in the
band, annual editor and class
secretary.
R. H. Yoder Dies
In Weimar Sunday
Funeral services for R. H.
Yoder, former publisher of the
■ Weimar Mercury for 48 years
and father of the present pub-
lisher, J. R. Yoder, will be
held at the Hubbard Funeral
Home at 3 p. m. Tuesday.
Burial will be in the Masonic
cemetery.
Mr. Yoder, 77, who had suf-
fered a stroke about two years
ago, died Sunday atiemocm
following another stroke about
ten days ago.
Also surviving are four
daughters, Mrs H. M. Schlick-
er of Bryan, Mrs. W F. Oder
of Houston, Mrs. J. C. Chand-
ler of Austin and Mrs. F. O.
Jaye Jr. of Bellaire,
LODGE TO MEET
The Oldenburg Hermann
Sons Lodge, No. 118, will have
its annual meeting on Friday,
Feb. 15, at 7:30 p. m. at Olden-
burg. All members are asked
to be present.
IN OKINAWA
|Word has been received by
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Koepke
that their daughter, Carolyn,
and her daughter, Kathy, have
arrived safely in Okinawa.
Her husband. Norman Mersi-
ovsky, is stationed there with
the army. Mrs. Mersiovsky and
Kathy left here last weekend
and plan to make their home
in Okinawa.
Mrs. L. E Van Hoy and Mrs.
James Kistleberg of El Paso
spent three days last week
with Mrs. Van Hoy’s mother,
Mrs. W. A. Snyder of the Fay-
etteville-Purk area. Weekend
guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Suess Jr. and daughter, Sha-
ron, of Houstop.
ONE-CAR MISHAP
A 1957 Ford driven by Wal-
ter Fuchs, Carmine building
contractor, was considerably
damaged but the operator es-
caped injury in an accident on
Highway 237 between Olden-
burg and the Fayetteville “Y”
at about 8 p. m. Friday. The
car struck a guard post on the
right side., then veered across
the pavement and into a pas-
ture. Mr. Fuchs told Deputy
Sheriff C. A. Prikip ’he was
blinded by the lights of an on-
coming car. causing the mis-
hap. The Ford was towed to
Warrenton by Renck Motors.
Texas, laboratory. The indivi-
dual student reports are tab-
ulated by the teacher, and a
single report is mailed to
serewworm eradication pro-
gram officials. The information
is considered by officials in
planning the release of sexual-
ly sterile .serewworm flies now
being reared in a plant near
Mission at the rate of over 75
million per week.
Livestockmen are encourag-
ed to check their animals often
and treat any wounds or scrat-
ches. About 10 maggots taken
from deep in the wound should
be sent to Mission for positive
identification and the wound
should then be properly treat-
ed with an approved insecti-
cide. Kill any screwworms that
drop out on the ground. Doo-
ley cautioned.
The recent cold weather has
lowered the native screwwonn
population considerably. Doo-
ley said, and program officials
feel now is the time when
great strides toward eradica-
tion can be made. However, if
infested animals are not found
and treated, screwworms may
once again spread across the
stage and undo all that has
been gained. A single screw-
worm case left untreated dur-
ing favorable weather can de-
velop into hundreds of cases
within a few weeks, the voca-
tional agriculture teacher stat-
ed.
Any farmer or rancher in
the area not being contacted I
by oite of the students, who
finds screwworms in his live-i ample. it cost the department
stock, should teii the vocation-1 $1,688.54) to pick up litter and
al agriculture teacher or coun-' garbage, and sign damage to-
ty agent immediately, Dooley taled $807 last year. In Dis-
concluded. trict 13, which includes this
HIT-RUN CAR SOUGHT
Officers are on the lookout
for a car, believed to be a late
model Chevrolet, which side-
swiped a 1959 Chevy driven by
Leonard Stubblefield of Tay-
lor and did not stop. The acci-
dent happened .5 of a mile east
of Fayetteville on Highway
159 Sunday at 7 p. m. as Stub-
blefield was driving east. Pat-
rolman A. F. Hall and Con-
stable Lawrence Ulbrich are
the investigating officers.
LG P-TA TO MEET
The La Grange P-TA will
meet Thursday, Feb. 14, at
7:30 p. m. in the Hermes Ele-
mentary school cafeteria. The
program in observance of
Founder’s Day will be by Ray
Comes. The title of the pro-
gram will be “An Appreciation
of Amerca’s Heritage.”
IS OVERSEAS
Pvt. Junior C. Heinrich, who
is serving a tour of duty with
the US Marines in Okinawa
since May 1962, has also spent
time in Japan and will spend
some time in the Philippine Is-
lands, Korea and Guam be-
fore he returns to the US in
July. Pvt. Heinrich writes
home that it sure gets pretty
lonesome so far away from La
Grange and that he would
very much appreciate hearing
from some of his friends. His
addresp is Pvt. Junior C.
Heinriek, 1&89057, M Co. 3rd
Bn. 9th, Marines. 3rd Marine
Div. (Reinl FMF. Marines
“23”, care of FPO, San Fran-
cisco, Calif.
Rites Held Sunday
For Joe F. Krenek
Funeral services for Joe F.
Krenek, 72, retired business-
man and 15-year resident of
the Riverside addition, were
held Sunday at 2 p. m. at the
Koenig Funeral Home chapel.
The Rev. John F. Jensen of-
ficiated, and burial was in the
La Grange City cemetery.
Mr. Krenek, who operated a
filling station and cold drink
business until his retirement
several years ago, passed a-
,w»y Friday nt Fayette Mem-
orial hospital of self-inflicted
rifle shot wounds
Mr. Krenek was bom at Fla-
tonia on March 30, 1890, son of
Joseph and Ann Zapalac Kre-
nek, and on Nov. 22, 1909 he
married Miss Frances Sabrsu-
la at Bastrop. They lived near
West Point until moving to La
Grange.
He is survived by his wife;
two daughters, Mrs. Johnnie
Tanecka of West Point and
Mrs. William Talasek of Tem-
ple; five sisters, Mrs. Jim Res-
sler of East Bernard, Mrs.
Julia Richards and Mrs. Annie
Hilscher of Smithville, Mrs.
Georgie Inge of California and
Mrs. Bill McClanahan of Mul-
doon; a brother. Henry Kre-
nek of Brazoria; nine grand-
children and five great-grand-
children.
One son. Alvin Joe, passed
away Oct. 22, 1957.
ed to put two astronauts into
orbit on a scientific explora-
tion of the moon. Visitors will
be able to man the controls of
the ship for a simulated moon
orbit.
Another exhibit is a display
of authentic scale models of
America’s top satellites and
rockets. These include the Sur-
veyor, Nimbus. Ranger, Tyros,
the new two-man Gemini and
the three-stage Apollo which
will send three men into moon
orbit in about 1980.
Also shown is a 15-foot
moonscape which details how
man will live and work on the
moon. Many startling and in-
teresting facts will be learned
from the living on the moon.
The exhibit, built last year
at a cost of SI 50.000, was shown
at five state fairs where it
broke all attendance records.
Its one-day stopover in La
Grange was made possible by
an open date in the schedule
and the fast action of the Cham-
ber of Commerce in arranging
for the showing.
Admission is free, and the
exhibit will be open contin-
uously from 9 a. m. until 5 p.
m this Tuesday, Feb. 12, on
the court house square.
IT’S A BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ste-
phen Pavlik of Houston are
the proud parents of a baby
boy bom to them at the Spring
Branch Memorial hospital on
Feb. 2. The little lad weighed
eight pounds two ounces and
was named Edward Stephen
Jr. He is also welcomed by two
sisters, Catherine 3, and Suz-
anne 2. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Kubecka and
Mr. and Mrs Karel Pavlik.
Ivoss Is $2,495 In Fayette Alone!
Highway Litter, Vandalism Costly
More than a million dollars! j county, the total for both pick- (mates on the cost of removing
Black Jack Church
Expresses Thanks
The following letter receiv-
ed by The Record is self-ex-
planatory:
Dear Editor:
At the recent annual con-
gregational meeting of the
Trinity Lutheran church. Black
Jack. I was directed to express
our sincere thanks and appre-
ciation to you for printing our
church notices free of charge.
Our congregation is deeply
grateful to you for this service.
C. W. Meyer, Lay President
That’s what it cost the Tex- j ups and property damage
as Highway Department last aggregated $20,322.
year to pick up the Utter and | Vandalism, according to the
garbage strewn along the high-1 department classification, cov-
way rights-of-way. To be ex- ers such items as damaging
act, the figure ran to $1.3 Mil- and destroying signs and sign
lion, with sign and other van-1 supports, marking on struc-
dalism of highway property i tures and damaging roadside
jumping the total to $1,799,-'parks. Most prevalent litter
900. | items are beer cans, water-
In Fayette county as an ex- melon rinds, bottles, wrap-
pers, newspapers, pop bottles,
milk cartons and cigarette
packages.
Over the years the Highway
Department has made esti-
litter from the rights-of-way
ranging from $500 Thousand
to $1 Million. It wasn’t until
last year that Maintenance
Operations conducted a study
to get a closer look at the act-
ual cost of picking up trash.
And they found that costs
were tremendously higher
than previously estimated.
The Division found that
highway littering and vanda-
lism accounted for 3.7? per
cent of their budget. With the
money spent on picking up
(See LITTER, Page 2)
C. C. MEETS TONIGHT
The La Grange Chamber of
Commerce will meet Monday
night (tonight) at 7:30 at the
Ag building. Election of four
directors is on the agenda.
Little Dana Lynn Ellis, year-
and-a-half old granddaughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Conn,
has returned to her home in
Three Rivers after spending
two weeks here with her
grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Albert
of Shiner stopped by Saturday
to renew their subscription to
'Ihe Record. They were en
route to Bren ham, where the
Houston Post was host to the
distributors In thl* area with
a barbecue.
Fayette 4-H Trio
Winners In State
Poultry Program
By any set of standards, the
1962 Texas 4-H poultry award
program would have to be
deemed a tremendous success.
This program, co-sponsored
by Atwood Hatcheries of Co-
manche and the Heisdorf &
Nelson Poultry farms of Kirk-
land, Wash., involved more
than 4.000 Texas 4-H boys and
girls.
Some 306 winners in 122 dif-
ferent counties received beau-
tiful gold-filled award medals
provided by the Atwood organ-
ization.
Fayette county winners
were: John William Mikus,
Fayetteville; Arline Reinhardt,
Winchester; and Leroy Jonda,
Hostyn.
These member were singled
out for this special recognition
because of the outstanding
manner in which they con-
ducted their 4-H poultry pro-
jects.
From these county winners
district winners were selected
on the basis of their records
covering at least three years of
4-H poultry demonstrations.
The district winners then com-
peted on a State level for a
trip to the National 4-H Con-
gress in Chicago and a chance
to vie for six college scholar-
ships of $400 each.
District winners included
District 10. Violetta Fisher, Rt.
1, Paige. Bastrop county.
Randall Ihms of Georgetown,
was declared the 1962 ch.2rr.pU
on 4-H poultry producer of
Texas and was awarded the
trip to the National 4-H Con-
gress as Texas’ poultry repre-
sentative to this assemblage.
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