The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas, Thursday, September 10,1959
City Council
Annexes Land
The La Grange City council
met Wednesday night, Sept. 2,
and formally annexed a 7.03
tract of land bordering the north-
western part of town to the city
limits.
The action came after a public
hearing on an annexation peti-
tion filed by Edgar F. Mayer and
others at a council meeting on
Aug. 26.
In other business, the council
authorized Mayor Minton von
Minden to advertise for bids for
laying an eight-inch sewer line
along N. Franklin and N. Jef-
ferson Sts. from Pearl to a point
between the Chas. Mlchalk and
W. P. Glaiser properties, a dis-
tance of 3,063 feet; and a six-inch
sewer line across an easement
over the two properties to Von
Minden St., 478 feet in length.
Bids will be opened Wednesday
night, Sept 30.
A proposal by Paul Goldam-
mer offering to dedicate a street
on his property was presented for
study. The matter was taken un-
der advisement, with final ac
tiun dependent on a drainage
survey to be made in the eastern
part of town in the near future.
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THAT’S WHAT THE RULE SAYS—Popular Houston football
announcers Kern Tips (left) and Alec Chesser (right) discuss 1959
rule changes with Howard Grubbs, executive secretary of the
Southwest Conference. The occasion was an announcers seminar
held in Dallas. Tips heads The Humble Company’s staff of 23 play-
by-play announcers who will describe all Conference games this
season. Starting Sept. 19, the oil company will sponsor some 50
broadcasts, 13 live telecasts, and a Sunday afternoon videotaped
Southwest Conference “Game of the Week” on Houston radio and
TV.
Jaycee Carnival Wed.
The La Grange Jaycees are
sponsoring a Carnival and Street
Dance on the Court House
i halftime
i handAThe 1
their X5S4&'
Were you among the 1,500 fans
at Leopard field Friday night to,
watch the Leps and Brahma#
tangle in the initial football
game of the 196B season? If you
were, I’m sure you enjoyed the
game as well as the
shows put on by both
LHS band featured their,
drum major Amelia Jansen and
six majorettes in a twirling
show. They demonstrated their
talents as a group as well as in-
dividually. '
_ AJB —
We’re looking forward, along
with all of Fayette and the sur-
rounding counties, for the 32nd
annual Fayette County Fair. The
three-day event will be held next
week, the 17-19. Officials have
planned the fair so that a variety
of entertainment will be avail-
able to young and old at day-
time as well as night. It’s an
event you can’t afford to miss
and we hope to see yon among
those enjoying yourselves there.
_ AJB -
Mr. John P. Vacula, caretaker
at Monument Hill State Park, in-
forms us that visitors hit an all-
time high at the park for the
month of August. A \otal of
21301 people visited the park
coming in 3407 Texas vehicles
and 344 others.
_AJB —
Dae to the holiday Monday, it
was neeessary for The Journal to
publish only eight pages this
week, causing the omission of
numerous news items from this
issue. These are scheduled to be
published In our next Issue.
_ AJB —
Several photographs scheduled
for publication this week failed
to arrive back from the engraver
Wednesday morning and there-
fore did not get into this issue of
The Journal. These also will be
published next week.
Bayless Heads
LG Little League
M. E. Bayless is the new pre-
sident of the La Grange Little
League for the next season. He
was elected at a weiner roast for
the youngsters and their parents
at* the Will Roitsch camp Wed-
nesday night, September 2.
Mr. Bayless succeeds Jack In-
fram;
Oilers elected-^wei
“Pete” Glaiser, vi
Erskine Fiebig, seer#
Aubrey D. Voelkel, treasurer,
re-elected.
Square in La Grange this Wed-
nesday night, Sept. 9.
Music will be by the Texas
Valley Boys. "Dance free to your
heart’s content,” say the Jaycees.
There also will be amusements
and entertainment of all' kinds,
The entire affair Is for the
benefit of the La Grange Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
NOTICE
The Brownie Scouts, troop No.
2, will have a get-acquainted
mjeting Wednesday afternoon.
Sept 1ft at the Scoot Hut ft
8‘.45 to 4:30 p. *. Second, third
and fourth grade girls are invit-
ed. For further information per-
sons are asked to call Mrs. Robt
J. Kallus, leader, at 144-R.
Pot Plant Entries
Urged Early t
Mrs. W. C. Hunter, wko is the
chairman of pot pfcnt entries for
the up-coming F*yette County
Fair, urges all whe plan to make
entries to contact her before the
morning of Sept. 1ft.
Mrs. Hunter would like to
know ahead of timp who plans to
enter plants, as a truck will be
sent out on the morning of the
16th to pick up thft entries.
Entrants are asked to call her
al 454-R or the co-chairman, Mrs.
Frank Gemar, at 178-M.
Fire Damages 16
Bales Lint Here
Firemen answered a call short-
ly after 11 o’clock Friday night,
Sept. 4, to the MK-Ts siding at
the La Grange compress.
Sixteen bales of cotton which
were part of a 30-bale cargo,
were damaged by the fire. The
cargo had been brought from
Smithville at 10 p. m.
Night watchman Raymond
Wunderlich smelled smoke,
sounded the alarm and notified
A. R. Ehlers, an official of the
compress and Harvey Roitsch,
compress manager.
Firemen and compress em-
ployees pulled the smouldering
bales from the car and soaked
them for two hours.
Mr. Ehlers said that the fire
likely originated at the gin. Usu-
ally it takes 48 hours for such a
fire to mainfest itself. It is for
this reason that cotton is not un-
loaded at the compress until af-
ter that period uf time.
X.OBPRIE8 N, __
Fritz LobprlllB has been sel-
ected to represent the Colorado
County Federal Savings and
Loan Association for the La
Grange territory.
ASC Election Results Listed
NOTICE
The Herman Sons Lodge will
meet at the lodge hall Wednes-
day, Sept. 16 at 8 p. m.
Calendar of Events
Thursday, Sept. 10—
Deadline for 4-H Essays on
“Why I Would Like to Own
A Registered Dairy Ani-
mal”.
Friday, Sept. 11—
Leps play at Bastrop, 8:00 p. m.
Monday, Sept. 14—
C. of C. Meets, 8 p.
building.
Returns have been tabulated
and posted of the Fayette county
community Agricultural Stabila-
zation and Conservation com-
mittee elections. The returns
showed a decline for the fourth
year in a rqw, 1,072 being cast
this year.
By comparison, 1,243 votes
were cast last year; 1,325, in
Leps Meet Bears
At Bastrop Friday
The La Grange Leopards will
be trying for their first victory
of the present gridiron season
when they motor to Bastrop to
encounter the Bears in a non-
district tilt Friday night, Sept.
11.
The bears were dealt a 16-0
defeat by the Leps last year and
will be trying to get revenge.
The Leps were downed Friday
night by the Hallettsville Brah-
mas 20-13, on Lep field.
The Dixon-led eleven will pick
their starters from the same
group of boys pitted against Hal-
lettsville last week.
1957 and 1,354 in 1956.
The three-man tabulation com-
mittee consisted of Bodo Kraus
of Round Top, Gus Mitsch of
Schulenburg and Oscar Carlson
of West Point.
The new chairmen of each of
the nine community committees
will also serve as delegates to
the annual ASC county conven-
tion. This will be held in the Ag.
building here on Sept. 25 at 10
a. m. to elect a county commit-
tee for the coming year.
Here is the list of the newly-
elected committees, with the
chairman and county convention
delegate being listed first, fol-
lowed in order by the vice-chair-
man, regular member, first alter-
nate and second alternate:
Ammannaville — Charles A.
Janecka, Ivan E. An tosh, Ladis
Mazoch, Ivan Dusek and Theo-
dore R. Muras; 175 votes cast.
Cistern—George Vacek, Ed-
mund Thiede, Traette Parker,
Robert Cowan and Jerry E. Mi-
‘ chal; 66 votes cast.
Fayetteville — Rudolph Mi-
nareik, Johnnie S. Petter, Alvin
L. Galle, Frank Jurajda and Gus
O. Kautz; 123 votes cast.
Flatonia—Julius Pospisil, Va-
clav Kalina, August J. Bily, A-
lois Anderle and Adolph H. Ma-
sek; 90 votes cast.
La Grange — Edgar Opper-
marrn, Johnnie R. Naiser, Ernest
J. Hensel, Gerhard Wieting and
Marvin L. Moerbe; 132 votes
oast.
Round Top—Elo Marburger,
Kermit Wunderlich, Wesley J.
Kraus, Herbert Wied and Elton
Rhode; 152 votes cast
Schulenburg — Walter Rip-
“LOOK FOR MEN (in the Legis-
lature) who can think for them-
selves,” urges this former Texas
Secretary of State, speaking to
more than 600 rural electric lea-
ders in Houston Aug. 27. **We
want first-class government for
Texas," says Tom Reevlay, nam
an Austin attorney, “not clandes-
tine control by any group - not
Fayetteville KC’»
Set Activities
Two major activities have
been set by the Fayetteville
Council, Knights of Columbus.
The first, a family night, has
been act on October 11 to cele-
brate Columbus Day and a chic-
ken stew supper has been set for
Nov. 1. The later is for the gene-
ral public.
Dan Prihoda and Edmund Bu-
ry have signed applications for
membership and have been ac-
cepted by unanimous vote of the
council.
“ and Sgene Mi-
chalaky are the
per, Henry Miksch, Leo Schmidt,
Jim Korenek and Alfons Vacek;
166 votes cast.
Warda-Winchester — Walter
Zoch, Herman Noack, Robert A.
Lehmann, Walter Kasper and
Raymond W. Schulze; 113 votes
cast.
West Point — Clinton Har-
bers, Kermit Stolle, Edwin Ras-
chke, Albert Weasels and Willie
Schroeder; 55 votes cast
La Grange School*
Open Tuesday With
High Enrollment
The doors of the La Grange
public schools opened Tuesday
morning. Sept. 8, for the 1959-60
term, with enrollment hitting an
all time high.
There were 989 students in at-
tendance and 30 more registered,
making the total enrollment
1,019. The high school figure is
351 and the tint eight grades,
668.
The Tuesday morning enroll-
ment in the high school cli
was 101 freshmen, 86 sopho-
mores, 92 juniors and 72 seniors.
Figures, unofficial, for the
other grades by rooms, were:
first, 28, 28 and 29; second, 24,
28 and 26; third, 30, 29, 22 and 5
absent; fourth, 31, 33 and 4 ab-
sent; fifth, 21, 33, 31 nd 3 ab-
sent; sixth, 36, 31, 12 and 7 ab-
sent; seventh, 34,31, 27 and 8 ab-
sent; and eighth, 35, 31 and 3
absent.
Six students are enrolled
the special education class.
New Car, Pickup
Collide Saturday
'A collision Saturday night.
Sept. 8, on the east side of the
Weber Conoco station involved
a brand new Chevrolet Bel Air
owned by John R. Lanier and a
GMC pickup operated by Melton
Logan. The ’89 Chevy had
mules
pm_
into the station
77 when his car apparently stall-
ed and M was hit on
a left turn off K. Travis
Girl Scout Troop
Sets Important
Meeting Sept. 14
The first meeting for the mem-
bers and mothers of Troop 4 •will
be held at the Girl Scout Hut
after school on Sept. 14.
Plans will be discussed for the
coming year which will include
overnight camping for the troop
In the near future. They have
money in the treasury from the
summer and plan to use it in this
new experience of camping out
overnight.
Another item discussed will be
their new uniform which they
will be entitled to wear as they
are junior high students now.
They will be working on badges
that will be of great importance
to them as they grow, for to be-
come a first Class Scout is a high
honor and means that she is a
first class person. But to achieve
this honor they must have help
and interest from their parents.
That is why we are requesting
the mothers to be present at this
first meeting, to bring their
ideas and questions so that their
daughters can get the most out
of scouting.
Schulenburg Dairy,
Beef Show Sept. 15
The 21st annual Schulenburg
Dairy and Beef Show will be
held in Schulenburg on Tueetiaw
Sept. 15.
This one day show is open to
dairy pad beef exhibitor* of Fay.
ette and nelghhbrlng counties.
Lloid Henderson, Schulenburg
dairyman and Jersey breeder, is
general chairman of the show. It
is being sponsored by the Schu-
lenburg Dairy and Beef Associa-
tion.
About 125 dairy cattle are ex-
pected at the show. This will be
one of the larger shows in the 21
years o the fallows existance.
Classes are set up for the Jersey,
Holstein, and Guernsey breeds.
There is also a junior division
for FFA and 4-H Club members.
J. W. Davis, extension dairyman
of Texas A&M, will classify the
dairy cattle.
Beef cattle will consist of two
classes: Herefords and Angus.
They will he judged by Robert
Moore, vocational agriculture
teacher of Weimar.
The day's activities will begin
at 10 a. m. with the judging of
the junior division dairy cattle.
This will be followed with the
open class dairy cattle. Beef cat-
tle pudging will begin immedi-
ately upon the completion of the
dairy cattle, or about Sum. A
kiddie parade will add to the ac-
tivities of the evening and will
begin at 5 p. m. A ham supper
will be served by the Band Mo-
thers Club beginning at 6 p. m.
A ‘Trade in Schulenburg”
campaign has been set up by the
Schulenburg businessmen to pro-
mote and publicize the show.
Prizes will be awarded by mer-
chants. H. N. Schwartz, chairman
of the finance committee, is in
charge of this activity.
Entertainment, games, and
food will be provided throughout
the afternoon and night by the
various civic organizations of
Schulenburg. Commercial exhi-
bits will be on display in the Tri-
Association Hall.
Commigsionerg Adopt
Operating Budget
The Fayette county commis-
sioners’ court met on Sept. 1
and adopted a $468,539.87 oper-
ating budget for the new year
starting January 1, 1960.
The tax rate will be the same,
50c per $100 assessed valuation,
plus a 30c levy upon state as-
sessments for county road and
bridge purposes.
The total resources for all
operating accounts for the new
year are estimated to be $658,-
$144,234.76 in anticipated net
649.34. This figure is made up of
ad valorem taxes for county pur-
poses, $262,829.23 in other re-
ceipts, $1,500 in delinquent tax
payments, and a beginning of the
year balance of $145,085. 35.
Expenditures are budgeted at
$468,539.87, leaving an anticipat-
ed balance of $85,109.47 at the
end of 1960.
The budget fixes assessed pro-
perty valuations at $22,700,000,
an increase of $169,855 over the
preceding year. Assessments are
based on approximately 30 per-
cent of the true market values.
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C OF C MEETS MONDAY
The La Grange Chamber of
Commerce will meet on Monday
night, Sept. 14, at 8 o’clock at
the Ag building.
on
10/ at 8
judging of
demonstra-
tion, and poultry exhibits will bo
held at 10 a. m. Koko, the clown,
will provide free entertainment
it 2 p. m, and at 7 p. m. The a-
dult dairy judging will be at 8
p. m.
On Friday, which is school
children’s day, the judging of the
adult divisions of livestock will
be held and Koko again will pro-
vide free entertainment.
The La; Grange High School
Band will give a band concert at
3 p. m. and at 3:30 the drawing
for free prizes for the school
children will begin. The rodeo
will be held at 7:30 p. m. and
promises to be a wild and wooly,
as well aa wonderful show. A
dance also will be held at the
Fair Pavilion beginning at 9 p.
m.
On the third and final day,
Saturday, the judging contest
will be at 8 a. m.; judging of toe
junior livestock division at 10.
11 p. m. 1
will be
at 8 and
be i
Midway
and night and
entertainment
on toft
Queen contestants as of Wed-
nesday morning are as follows:
Miss Jean Stoelke of Fayette-
Linda
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2M Attend Skat
Tourney Here Sun.
state tournament
of the Texas Skat Congress saw
294 contestants match wits at
the American Legion hall here
Sunday. Sept 8.
The west tourney was held
toe same day at Seguln.
sMasr.
ing areas.
son, 17-year-old beauty and ho-
nor student in Slaton high (Lub-
w as seated
ixa
27 and
Co-Op.
Baseball Champs
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1959, newspaper, September 10, 1959; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998168/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.