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VOLUME XXXXII LA GRANGE, TEXAS 78945
Devoted to the interests of the People of Fayette County and of Texas
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1964
NUMBER 73
10 NOMINATED
FOR DIRECTORS
BY CO-OP PANEL
5 Will Be Named
At Annual Meet;
Morriss Speaker
Ten nominees whose names
will appear on the official bal-
lot for the annual election of
directors by Fayette Electric
Cooperative members Wednes-
day, July 29, were selected by
a previously appointed com-
mittee here Monday.
At the same time it was an-
nounced that Jim Morriss, in-
formation director for Texas
Electric Cooperatives, will be
the guest speaker at the annual
meeting. Mr. Morriss was for-
merly on the announcing staff
for KTBC radio and television
at Austin.
Nominees lor directorship
chosen by the committee are:
District 1, L. A. Gies-e of
Warda and W. A. Ullrich of
Carrmne-Winedale; District 2,
C. M. Janda of Hostyn and
Lester H. Zapalac of Ellinger;
District 3, C. W. Meyer of
Freyburg and Alfons Vacek of
Sehulenburg; District 4, Julius
Jasek of Praha and August
A. Czichos of Moulton; and
District 5, Ed. Thiede of Cis-
tern and A. C. Cowan of Colo-
ny i
Further nominations also
may be made from the floor at
the meeting.
As in other years, the mem-
bership meeting will be held
at the fair grounds and will
start with registration at 12:30 <
P fn-
Five Are Inducted
And 13 Others Sent
For Exams Tuesday
Five men were forwarded
for induction Tuesday by Local
Selective Service Board No. 44.
They are, by counties:
Austin—Edward Jerry Jan-
da, Sealy, a volunteer; and De-
lano Pfeffer.
Colorado—Gene Carlos Epps.
Eagle Lake; and Alvin Clifford
Milligan, Eagle Lake,
Fayette—Felix Daniel Ko-
lek. La Grange.
The La Grange Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce presented a
small gift to each man leaving
for the service.
Local Board 44 also forward-
ed the following 13 men for
pre-induction physical exami-
nation on the same day:
Carnell Washington, David
J. DeMarco, Milton Powell, I-
van J. Mazoch Jr., Norbert F.
Banse, Roy L. Girndt, Richard
P. Korenek. Raymond K.
Kuchynka, Percy L. Jenkins.
Cilvestre Estrada. Norbert A.
Vrazel, Victor H Moeller Jr.
and Robert L. Johnson.
Under President Johnson’s
“manpower conservation pro-
gram" the following 18-year-
old men were forwarded for
pre-indufcttcni physical exami-
nation: Leroy R B’riedel, Roo-
sevelt Smith, Arbry Williams,
Joseph F. Mazoch, Ranee John-
son Jr. and Franklin Boettcher.
BREAKING GROUND FOR NEW CHURCH
I HAVE BABY GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tumis
are the’happy parents of a ba-
by girl born Tuesday at Fayet-
te Memorial hospital. She
weighed eight pounds six oun-
ces and has been named PeRgy
Jean.
ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Laddie Vasut
of Houston are announcing the
arrival of a baby boy, born at
Bayshore hospital in Pasadena,
on July 1. He weighed seven
pounds, six ounces and will
answer to the name of Dusty
Blake.
-
SafcJu. ■
The Rev. T H. Graalmann,
pastor of Mt. Calvary Luther-
an church, is shown as he
spades the first shovelful of
soil gt ground breaking servi-
ces for the new church build-
ing Sunday morning.
Observing prior to their
turns are, left to right, Harvey
Roitsch, general chairman;
Clarence Peters, building con-
struction chairman; Gus Mi-
chalk, Wilbert Diers, Herman
Koepke, Eugene Winkler, Wal-
ter Schneider and Harry
Gaertner, building committee
members.
Foundation for the new
structure was begun this week.
Demons At Weimar Sunday
SECOND ‘STAR’ GAME FRIDAY
The southern zone all-stars
of the South-Central Texas A-
mateur League will be out to
square the records when -they
meet their northern “cousins"
Friday night at Hallettsville.
The north won the opener at
La Grange two weeks ago, 9-1.
when four hurlers platooned
for a combined six-hit stint.
Three south zone mounds-
men gave up eight bingles, and
the victors used them effective-
ly with three walks and spotty
fielding for their run produc-
tion.
Comprising the northern di-
vision are La Grange, Weimar,
Smithville and East Bernard,
and making up the southern
group are Moulton, Halletts-
ville, Yoakum and Shiner.
Skippers of the northern
Yanks are La Grange’s Les
Blume and Weimar s Allan
Hoelscher, while Julius Beli-
cek of Moulton and Lawrence
Rothbaur are pilots of the
southern Confederates.
ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Silvin Kalmus
of Houston are happy to an-
nounce the arrival of a daugh-
ter bom on Saturday, July 4th,
at Hermann hospital. She
weighed five pounds 14 ounces
and has been named- Sharon
Lynn. Besides her parents, she
was welcomed by a sister, Shir-
leen Ann.
IN GERMANY
La Grange's Jaycee Demons,
with first place safely tucked
away, go to Weimar Sunday to
close out the regular South-
Central Texas Amateur Lea-
gue season.
The Demons defeated the
hometown Veterans, 8-0, ear-
lier in the season.
Meanwhile, the battle for
fourth place will still be wide
open Sunday. Hallettsville,
now -iu-Nn 4-*. mi a full game
ahead of East Bernard, needs
to win over Shiner in its sea-
son’s finale to clinch the spot.
However, in the event of a
Hallettsville setback and an
Blast Bernard victory over Yoa-
kum would result in a fourth
place tie and necessitate a one-
game suicide playoff to deter-
mine who faces La Grange in
the semi-finals.
The other Sunday game
finds Moulton, still tied with
Weimar for the Nos. 2 and 3
slots, at Smithville.
Hallettsville nosed out Wei-
mar, 7-6, in 10 innings, Moul-
ton conquered Yoakum, 7-5,
East Bernard toppled Smith-
ville. 7-1, and La Grange, of
course, shutout Shiner, 13-0, in
last Sunday’s action.
JURORS DISMISSED
The petit jury originally
called for Monday is being no-
tified not to appear The case
set for that date will be tried
before the court and not be-
fore a jury, it was decided
Wednesday.
Army Pvt. Siegrnund R Si-
vek, 3on of Mr. and Mrs Frank
Sivek Jr. of Lancaster, was as-
signed to the 529th Military
Police Company as an Honor
Guard military policeman. May
30.
He is a 1960 graduate of Lan-
caster High school and attend-
ed the University of Texas. He
was employed by the XjS Post
Office, Dallas, before entering
the army. He is a member of
the Kappa Theta fraternity.
His grandparents are Mr
and Mrs. Frank Sivek Sr of Iji
Grange. He attended La
Grange schools for seven years.
Local LL All-Stars
Enjfatfe Twin-Cities
In Area III Opener
La Grange's Little League
all-stars will meet Twin-City
(Flatonia and Moulton) at 8 p.
jm. Friday, July 24, in the Area
III tournament that will be
held in Weimar.
Plans for the tourney were
made in Weimar Sunday, when
representatives from 16 teams
in four areas met with regard
to the forthcoming playoffs.
Other leagues in Area III ar*
Colorado Valley and CWS
(Columbus, Weimar and Schu-
Lenburg). The Area I tou ~na-
npent will be at Luling, Area II
at Gonzales and Area IV at
Sealy.
Colorado Valley and CWS
meet July 25 at 8 p. m. in the
other Area III first rounder.
Losers of the two games play
first on the night of July 27.
while the winners meet for the
area title in the second contest
the same evening.
Winners of the Areas III and
IV tourney meet in the district
playoffs tentatively set for Hal-
lettsville July 28.
Round Top Church
Meet Starts Plans
For New Building
Bethlehem Lutheran church
of Round Top held its semi-an-
nual meeting on Wednesday,
July 1, when members voted to
start raising money for a new
church once the parsonage
debt is paid off.
They also voted to have the
Round Top community organ-
ize a Round Top Improvement
Association. The Rev. Martih
H. Obst, pastor, at that time ex-
plhincni the'Fayette Crainfy Re-
sources committee’s work He
also mentioned that the Round
Top city council would call a
meeting of representatives of
organizations in the Round Top
area to discuss organizing the
community.
Proxy voting was prohibited
from now on by an amendment
to the constitution. Cemetery
by-laws were adopted. plans
for the centenial in 1966 were
approved, and a Preaching-
Teaching-Reaching mission was
approved for Feb. 14-18 in con- less $1,759.53 discounts, delin-
junction with the East-Central ‘ '“”T ‘ ’
TAX YEAR-END
SEES 97.9 PCT.
OF m PAID
$562,365 Remitted
Against A Total
Levy Of $574,637
Fayette county folk, general-
ly known to be prompt m meet-
ing their obligations, had paid
97.9 per cent of their total tax
bill for the liscal year ended
June 30, it will he shown in the
annual report now being pre-
pared by Assessor-Collector
Gilbert H. Eck and his depu-
ties.
This is a bare .03 of one per
cent under last year, when the
percentage was 97.93 and only
1/10 of one per cent below that
of 1962 when it was an even 98
per cent. Three years ago the
percentage was 97.6, and four
years ago 97.8.
Overall payments for the
past fiscal year amounted to
$562,365.06 against assessments
of $574,637.06, leaving only
$12,272 to go on the delinquent
rolls.
This is a break-down of the
various levies, payments and
amounts delinquent:
State ad valorem—Assessed
$70,511.28, paid $69,051.71 less
$1,699.88 discounts for early
payment, delinquent $1,459.57.
County ad valorem—Assess-
ed $148,638.60, paid $145,539.06
less $3,484.76 discounts, delin-
quent $3,099.54.
Special road—Assessed $50,-
365.20, paid $49,322.64 less $1,-
214.19 discounts, delinquent
$1,042.56.
Cummins Creek Assessed
if :846:4ft; paid $Y#15:W few*
$41.99 discounts, delinquent
$30.57.
La Grange Independent
School district — Assessed
$120,524.95, paid $118,012 less
$2,709.4Q discounts, delinquent
$2,512.95
Other IS Districts.
Flatonia school--Assessed
$35,330.72, paid $34,753.84 less
$862.09 discounts, delinquent
$576.88.
Sehulenburg school—Assess-
ed $71,255.52, paid $68,987.88
School Gets Councils Offer
Plea Sounded For
Bigger Meet Room
In New Structure
A delegation of represents-
j five business people Wednes-
I day night recommended to the
j city council that it consider a
| meeting room or auditorium io
I seat 2')0 or more people when
plans for the proposed new
city hall-utilities building are
finalized.
With such facilities, delega-
tion spokesmen said, larger
conventions and similar gather-
ings could be attracted—all to
the general benefit of the city.
They also recommended that
such facilities could well be
utilized as a sort of recreation
center for the community’s
youth.
A spokesman for the council
said that the idea was good, but
he felt such facilities would not
properly fit into a business
building such as was being
planned—utilities and city ad-
ministrative office building
with council chambers to ac-
commodate approximately 30—
but rather thought that, if such
would come to pass, it should
be a structure for itself at the
city park on S. Jefferson St.
Otto Legler, local American
Legion commander, informed
the group that the post was
planning to air-condition its
hall here, sufficient to accom-
modate 500 or more, and it
would then be the post’s inten-
tion to invite larger group ses-
sions such as were being dis-
cussed.
Mayor Milton von Minden
said that plans for the new
btbWuvg m4 already beam .ac-
cepted. but that the matter of
increasing the meeting room
size would be looked into after
blueprints and specifications
arrive from the architect.
Trailer Cuts Corner,
Bangs Signal Light
The traffic light at the cor-
ner of W. Travis and Washing-
ton Sts. here was out of com-
mission Tuesday.
Cause of the disruption is be-
lieved to have been a house
trailer that came too close to
the corner at the Hunger build-
ing (formerly the home of the
Fair Grounds Area
Option Given LHS
As Athletic Field
Pursuant to a request at the
last meeting, the La Grange
city council Wednesday night
proposed to sell an area of land
in the northwestern corner of
the fair grounds property to
the La Grange independent
school district for development
Perry’s store) and tore up the i as a new athletic field.
"stop” and “go” light loostfc I
there.
The mishap occurred early
Tuesday morning, as it was then
that someone about a block a-
way heard a crashing noise in
the direction where the light
was later found smashed
La Grange Utilities crew*,
even improvising parts, got the
mechanism reassembled and
reinstalled late Tuesday, and
by Wednesday morning all was
normal again. However, many
was the motorist—and pedes-
trian—who stopped and looked
twice before going on Tuesday,
because the signals had become
sruch a “guiding” factor over re-
cent years and were really
missed by most of them.
VISIT IN CORPUS
Mr and Mrs. Gus Foerster
and Marie Kallus spent the
weekend in Corpus Christi
with Mr and Mrs. On* Fourn-
ier Jr. Mrs. Foerster, Rodney,
Gary and Terri accompanied
the Foersters back and will
spend some time here and In
Fayetteville.
Conference PTR.
Also approved was a fund-
raising drive for this fall, a
mission festival and a harvest
festival. A resolution spelling
out how college students study-
ing for full-time church work
can be helped financially was
also passed.
When the meeting was over1
the majority felt that the pur-
pose of the meeting had been
accomplished and that much
work will have to be done in
the coming months and years,
slated the pastor.
R. W. Weinert Rites
Held At Round Top
i Funeral services for Richard
W. Wainert, 81, were held
Thursday at 3:30 p. m. it the
Round Top Lutheran church
with Rev. A M. Hanneinann
of Carmine otficiating. Burial
was in the Carmine cemetery.
Mr. Weinert passed away
Tuesday at a Brenhain Hospi-
tal following a several months’
illness.
He was born at Burton on
Jan. 1, 1883, and married Miss
Bertha Wolff at Burton on Oct.
20, 1904. Mr Weinert was in
the mercantile business at Car-
mine for some years, then farm-
ed in the Shelby community.
He retired in October 1952 ml
of late he and Mrs. Wei-
nert resided near the Carmine
“Y".
Surviving are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. Eddie Braun
of Warrenton and Mrs. Harold
Weyand of Carmine; a son,
Herbert L Weinert of Car-
mine; brother, Ernest Weinert
of Brenham; two sinters, Mrs.
August .1 aster of Brenham and
Mrs Willie Boehnemann of
Burton; one grandchild and
one great-grandchild.
quent $2,267.64.
Round Top-Carmine
—Assessed $33,777.94.
$33,069.36 less $740 58
counts, delinquent $708.58.
Weimar school—Assessed
(See TAXES. Page 2)
school
paid
dis-
DAUGHTER BORN
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Meier Jr.
became the happy parents of a
seven pound five ounce daugh-
OPEN HOUSE SET
All friends are invited to an
open house honoring Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore^ Weldon (Ted)
Umer on their 25th wedding
anniversary to be held on Sun-
day, July 19 iroin 2:30 to 5 p.
rn. at the Faith Lutheran
church parish hall. 6600 Wood-
row Ave., in Austin. The cou-
ple requests that no gifts be
sent.
SPIES RITES SATURDAY
Funeral services for Mrs.
Lena Spies, 77, wife of Otto
Spies, will be held at the Von
Minden chapel in Round Top
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Interment will be in the Flori-
ter born at Fayette Memorial , da cemetery. A complete obit-
hospital Tuesday. She has been I uary will appear in the next is-
narned Kathleen Diane. sue.
Rev. Roth PlanninjB:
To Retire As Camp
Director On Oct. 1
The Rev. J. E. Roth of West,
former minister at the First
Baptist church here, has an-
nounced his retirement as se-
nior camp director at Latham
Springs near Wes-t, effective
Oct. 1 after serving in this po-
sition for 15 consecutive years.
Special commemorating ser-
vices for his retirement aire be-
ing prepared.
“The Baptist Challenge”
commended him very highly
for the accomplishments that
have been attained at the camp
since he assumed management.
“The Baptist Challenge” states
that at the time Rev. Roth be-
came manager there was no
decent house in which to live,
there was just an old beat-up
truck to drive around to make
contacts, not enough buildings
to house the people and no kit-
chen and cooking facilities to
take care of them.
Today, there is a manager’s
home, a respectable car is fur-
The school’s request had
been for approximately 17 ac-
res, but this apparently would
be trimmed a bit so as not to
take away too much of what is
known as the “middle” access
road. The council also recom-
mended that, if the deal is con-
summated. the land to be sold
include tne triangular area to
the right of the main entrance
road which is not on the ori-
ginal plans and the balance in
a more or less rectanguar shape
to accomodate a north-south
football field with cinder track
and sufficient parking area.
The council set a price of $50
an acre—same as was paid by
the VFW post in 1947—for the
land, with the school district to
provide for rerouting of the ac-
cess road if this is necessary.
Before a city-wide election
can be called on the sale, th.5
council must be presented with
a petition requesting such vote.
A number of other matter;3
were disposed of at the meet-
ing. Included were:
(See COUNCIL, Page 2)
Jaycee Carnival,
Dance Set Aug. 20;
Enter 2 Tourneys
La Grange Jaycees, meet-
ing here Monday night, sched-
uled their annual carnival and
free dance for Thursday night,
Aug. 20, at the fair grounds.
Pres. Travis Etzel and Secy.
Jack Soharnberg were delegat-
ed the jobs of general chair-
men. “TV. 41
The event will include the
usual carnival amusements,
and the music for the dance—•
to be held in the pavilion—will
be by the Lee Use Orchestra.
In other business, the Jay-
cees voted to enter a team in
the upcoming summer bowling
league here and also to enter
nished the manager to use for the Sehulenburg Jaycee men’s
his work, over 60 buildings
equipped for people to sleep, a
few permanent year-aound
buildings, a fine kitchen and
dining halls, a large tabernacle,
and pavilions and recreational
facilities.
Practically all has been done
out of the profits of the man-
agement of the encampment,
the “Challenge” said.
MONDAY NIGHT LOOP LADIES CHAMPS
-
ip-
softball tournament. It was re-
ported that the new litter bar-
rels were completed and would
be placed around the square as
soon as they are painted.
Albert Pechal was not pre-
sent to claim the $13.40 door a-
ward,
■AJ
BALL PARK CLEAN-UP
SCHEDULED JULY 16
All Jaycees are requested to
be at Fair Park the evening of
July 16 for a clean-up of the
premises in preparation for the
upcoming area Babe Ru n
tournament. Members of the
Ruth and Connie Mack clubs
also are asked to assist with
the chore.
IN NEW YORK
Mr. and Mrs W. L. Mojg-'in
and their grandchildren, Kirk
and Susan, of Plum are vaca-
tioning in Bemus Point, New
York, with Mr. and Mrs. FYank
Skillman They are planning
on returning this weekend.
Above is the Pearl Beer No.
2 team, which finished in the
top position of the ladies' divi-
sion in the Monday Night Lea-
gue
Standing, left to right.
let, tiie sponsor, and Isohel
Row.
This team also won high
team average, high three-game
•ries and high single game
Corine Etzel, Minnie Weber, j Mrs. Weber had high individu-
Genelda J aster, Lisetta Rosen *d three-game senes and high
Foehner Funeral Home of i berg and Peany Mueller: seat- individual average. Mrs. J aster
Burton directed the funeral. 1 ed, Florence Otto, Wilbert Jas-1 had second high average and
tied for second high three-game
series, and Mrs. Etzel won se-
cond high game.
In the recent Texas Ten-Pin
Tournament in Houston, Mr*
Weber and Mrs. Jaster won
fourth place in Class A doubles,
and Mrs. Jaster won seventh in
all events.
12,812 VIEW MHSP
According to V. O. Burgess,
Monument Hill State Park
manager. 12,812 visitors in 3,-
278 state cars and 182 out-of-
state cars viewed the park dur-
ing June Ten of these people
were from out of the United
States.
KC’S LADIES NIGHT
At their regular monthly
eir regut
meeting the Chrome, k Council
Knights of Columbus planned a
ladies night to be held Sunday,
July 12 at the Ernest Kallus
park on the bluff The event is
to begin at 5:30 p m. Stew will
be served and those attending
are asked to bring their own
bowls and spoons.
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