The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1958 Page: 1 of 12
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O.C.B.A. Battling For Congress Action On Cotton
VOLUME I,XXIX
LA GRANGE, FAYETTE COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931
Farm Bureau Queen To Be Named
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By The Editor’s Wife
We found this note on our desk
this week: “The Washateria Mar-
tins, Mrs. Ellen Battelle and dau-
ghters are taking their vacation
beginning August 15. They are
J going first to Columbus, Ohio, to
'll visit their son and brother, Cap-
tain Sam Martin, who is an in-
structor of Air Science at the
University of Columbus. Then
on to visit their daughter, Edith
and family near Hanover, Penn-
sylvania. From there they will
come home through South Caro-
lina where their daughter, Alice,
and family are at Shaw AFB.”
Have fun, folks!
* — AJB —
Also off to Ohio, this time its
Cleveland, are Mr. and Mrs. E.
8. Kovar who will attend the
National Convention of the
Knights of Columbus there. They
leave the 17th by plane, and this
will be Mrs. Kovar’s first flight.
(We have never flown, and feel
*“ like the old gentleman who said
“I want to keep my feet on terra
firma, the more firma, the less
terra.”) Anyhow, we hope the
Kov&rs enjoy their convention
and their trip.
— AJB —
- Mrs. L. W. Stolz and her
granddaughter, Miss Carolyn
Ann Redman of Houston, return-
ed last Wednesday night after a
four week visit in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania with Mr. and Mrs.
- John J. Carr and family. A trip
to the Carr’s beach home and to
Atlantic City, New Jersey, was
one of the highlights of their
trip. /
_ AJB —
Mrs. Rita Kallus will attend
the August 23 wedding of her
son in Boston, Massachusetts.
He will wed Miss Gertrude
Thorton.
_AJB —
MORE VACATIONERS: Mr. and
Mrs. L. J. Oeding of La Grange
are visiting their son Reuben, in
Norwalk, California, while on
their two-week vacation—a note
from our correspondent at
Round Top, Mrs. Leo Jaster, re-
veals that the Jasters are having
a nice visit in Houston.
_ AJB —
Mr. Fred H. Schulze of Route
2 La Grange tells us that he has
been a Journal subscriber for 49
years. That's always good news
to us, and its surprising how ma-
ny people have had the Journal
In their homes for forty years or
more.
_ AJB -
La Grange Band Director Wil-
bur W. Johnson will teach clari-
net at a week-long Summer
— Camp for South Houston Jr.
*- .High School, at Schreiner Insti-
tute Campus at Kerrville. Mrs.
Johnson and son, Mark, will ac-
company him.
_ AJB —
Mr. John Vacula reports that
during July 18,738 people visit-
ed Monument Hill, arriving in
m ' 3,545 Texas vehieels. and 239
cars from ont-of-state.
Fayette County will have a
new Farm Bureau Queen Satur-
day night at 10 p. m.
The annual queen’s contest
will be held in conjunction with
a dance at the Fair Pavilion in
La Grange this Saturday, Aug-
ust Id. The music will be fur-
nished by Ray Krenek’s Orches-
tra and admission will be 50c
per person. The dance starts at
8:45.
Master of Cerempnies for the
Queen’s Contest will be Bill Mc-
Reynolds, Farm Editor of Radio
Station WOAI, San Antonio.
Names of the contestants will not
be made public until after the
contest is over, but by Monday
noon four had been entered.
They are from Round Top, Swiss
Alp, Warda, and La Grange
Farm Bureaus. There is no dead-
line, but entries must be made by
Friday night in order that they
might be at the rehearsal at 8 p.
m. at the Fair Pavilion.
The winner of the Fayette
County contest will participate
in the District Contest in Katy
the last part of August.
The local contest Saturday
night will be judged by out-of-
county people who will remain
anonymous.
COTTON LOAN RATE 1958-59 LA GRANGE AREA
WHITE
SPOTTED
S. M.
MID.
SLM.
L. M.
18/16
7/8
29/82
15/18
31/82
1”
1-1/32
30.55
31.70
32.70
34.15
3440
35.80
30.70
30.00
31.10
32.15
33.50
34.15
3445
3540
20.55
27.55
28.40
28.65
30.35
31.15
81.90
23.60
24.50
25.25
26.20
20.80
2745
2745
13/10
7/8
29/32
15/18
31/82
1”
1-1/82
26.05
27.08
28.05
29.10
29.70
30.40
31.00
23.40
24.45
25.25
26.20
20.90
27.70
28.25
21.10
21.80
22.50
23.30
23.85
24.50
24.75
18.50
19.20
19.85
20.60
21.00
21.45
21.70
Courtesy Ehlers Cotton Company
L. G. CHAMBER ENDORSES
I FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS
The La Grange Chamber of
Commerce has endorsed two
farm to market roads for Fayette
County. The action came at the
regular meeting of the Chamber
Monday night at the Agricul-
ture building.
A 28-man group from Fayet-
Lawrence Rainosek Hospitalized
Following Tuesday Accident
Lawrence Rpinosek, 17 . year I assorted bruises, cuts, and abrai-
jld son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rai-1 sions, in an accident which oc-
nosek of Rt. 3, La Grange, suf-1 curred 6 miles south of La
fered a broken collar bone, and Grange on Highway 77 near
Kana’s comer at 7:40 a. m„ Tues-4
day morning.
Lawrence, piloting a farm
tractor pulling a wagon was
struck from behind by a 1958
Ford flatbed truck carrying a
load of approximately 10,000 lbs.
of broiler chickens. The truck
was driven by Aaron Porter of
Route 1, Center, Texas.
The youth is hospitalized in
La Grange.
The accident was investigated
by State Highway Patrolman
George Saegert and Deputy
Sheriff Charlie Prilop.
L. G. Cheer Section
Will Organize
Monday Night
The La Grange High School
Cheer Section will meet for an
organizational meeting on Mon-
day, Augus 18, a 8 p. m. Mrs.
Werner Heise announced the
meeting to be held in the Ele-
mentary School Patio.
Work will begin for the up-
coming football season and all
high school girls interested
should report to this meeting,
Mrs. Heise said. She also stated
that any graduate girl having
either a skirt or sweater to sell is
asked to be at the meeting.
This year's cheer leaders are
as follows: Head Cheer Leader
Karen Roitscb; other leaders are
Leath Hacker, Marilyn Hanisch,
Rose Melcher, and Geraldine
Witt.
ieville appeared before the
Chamber meeting requesting
that a Farm-to-Market road be
built from Warrenton to Willow
Springs and another from War-
renton to Fayetteville. The
Chamber endorsed both, which
means that it will lend its Sup-
port in trying to obtain these
two roads.
The Good Roads Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce will
(to to work on this matter along
with representatives from War-
T
Hi School Band
In Second Week
High School Band Leader W.
W. Johnson reports that the res-
ponse for the first week was very
(rood. The band has 70 members
reporting now for the second
week.
It is hoped, Mr. Johnson stat-
ed, that marching can be started
Thursday night, as up to this
time the band has been doing
only playing.
People who are just moving
to La Grange and who want to
take band are requested to talk
to Mr. Johnson.
renton, Willow Springs and Fay-
etteville and meet with the State
Highway Department to begin
plans.
The Chamber also passed a
motion requesting the City of La
Grange to pave Colorado Street
from where the paving now ends
to the Highway. They reasoned
that this would help relieve the
traffic congestion which noyv
exists on Travis Street, and wijl
make available another street
for residents from the East part
of town to come to work on.
Tom Jfcaratedt, winner of the
Chambej/>f Commerce award of
985. for ginning the first bale of
cotton this year appeared before
the group and thanked them for
the award.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hofman
were designated to be the guests
of Radio Station KENS of San
Antonio on Sept. 16 and 17 when
that station salutes La Grange.
Another couple will accompany
them.
Graeber Led Tri-Coiuitians Pound
SCTL 9-1 In All-Star Contest Here
Herrrraijji Sons Will
Meet August 20
The Bifmark Lodge of the
Sons of Hermann will meet
Wednesday night, August 20, at
the Lodge Hall on North Jeffer-
son St., according to an an-
nouncement made by the Secre-
tary, Milton Schmidt.
Refreshments will be provided
for by Hie committee.
LA ORANGE JOURNAL
supply year needs in
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Scouts Hold
Court of Honor
The Boy Scout Troop of La
Grange held a Court of Honor on
Monday evening, August 11, at
the VFW Hall.
Those receiving awards were:
Second Class, Mike Winn and
Ronold Rohan. First Class, Bud-
dy Sanders, Daniel L. Schultz,
Herbie Lehmann, Bruce Jaster,
Ronald Voss, Billy von Rosen-
berg, and Andrew Janda. Star,
Jimmy Zapalac; and Life, Joe
M. Kana and Don Mayer.
Merit badges were also award-
ed.
Mr. Louis Zapalc presented a
billfold to J. W. Soper from the
Scouts, honoring him for his five
years as L« Grange Scout Mas-
ter. Mr. Roper will retire from
this position on August 81. .
Following the Court of Honor
the Scouts and their Parents en-
joyed an ice cream supper. Ap-
proximately 50 were in attend-
snce.
Mrs J. J. Hart and Mias Anna
Katherine Schmidt attended a
bouse party over the weekend at
the home of Miss Bert Hart In
Winchester.
Combining a one-hit offense
with a weak seven-error de-
fense, the South Central-Texas
League All-Stars came up with
practically nothing as they lost
to the top performers of the Tri-
County League by a 9-1 count at
Fair Park last Wednesday night.
The lone SCTL hit came in the
first inning when centerfielder
Bil Neuendorff of Bernardo beat
out a high bouncer to third base.
The South Cen-Texans managed
to avoid a shutout in the second
frame when La Grange's Terry
Struve walked, took second on
a wild pitch, and scored on an
error.
With Carmine’s Billy Graeber
leading the way with four hits
.in as many tries, the Tri-Coun-
tians banged out nine hits from
the offering of four SCTL
moundmen.
The Tri-County stars greeted
SCTl starter Jerry Kresta with
tour runs and four hits—includ-
ing a booming two-run triple by
Graeber—in the first canto be-
fore Travis Etzel came in and
put out the fire.
Etzel worked a total of three
and two-thirds innings for the
South-Central stars and was, in
the opinion of many, SCTL's
most valuable player. He allow-
ed only one run—that being un-
earned—and one hit while fan-
ning two and hitting one.
Bernardo’s Ray Dungar follow-
ed Etzel to the mound and tailed
for three frawiwa allowing throe
iuns—ell unearned—end three
hits. The three tallies came In
the seventh stanza on four
SCTL errors.
Butch Blume of La Grange
pitched the final inning and was
touched for one run on a pair of
singles.
While the Tri-County hitters
were running wild, their pitchers
were handily keeping the South
Cen-Texans at bay.
Willie Prigge started for the
Tri-Countians and was the win-
Run-off Absentee
Voting Underway
The Second Democratic Pri-
mary will be held Saturday,
August 28, in what seems to be
the most unusual election Texas
and Fayette County has ever
seen.
Many counties did not want to
hold run-offs because of the lack
of local races, and only one
state race. But officials ruled
that a run-off must be held, so
local voters will have the dub-
ious distinction of casting their
vote in the race for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court,
Place 1. The two contestants are
J. Edwin Smith of Houston and
Robert W. Hamilton of Midland.
The La Grange Journal printed
the ballots last week and absen-
ting pitcher despite the fact that
he allowed the SCTL their lone j tee voting is now underway. You
itin and hit in his two - inning'may so vote up until August 19,
stint. the Tuesday before election. Up
J. C. Pohl of Carmine faced'
only six men—strinking out
four—in his two inning role, and
Burton’s Dick Hickerson faced
but seven men—striking out
five—in the next two innings.
Carmine’s Dave Ellers tossed the
remaining three frames facing 11
men and striking out five of
them. When totaled, results show
that 15 SCTL stars hit the dust
via the strike out route.
Billy Graeber had a pair of
singles, a double, and a triple,
scoring three runs and driving in
four in four times at bat to lead
the TCL stars. Shortstop Ho Ull-
rich had a pair of singlaa in five
tries and was ths only other hit-
ter to pick up more than one hit.
Five Lm Grange Damons pot to
play in the contest with third-
baseman Terry Struve and first
baseman Billy Frits starting for
the SCTL, and pitchers Trav Et-
zel and Butch Blume and catcher
Miffte Kaase entering the fray
In later
to Monday none had been cast.
It is expected that the voting
will be extremely light. The Fay-
ette County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee ordered only
3.000 ballots printed. About 4500
votes were cast in the first pri-
mary. Even optimists were guess-
ing that not over 2,000 votes
would be cast in Fayette County
in the Second Primary.
Weekly BuUetins
BULLETIN
Fire Chief A. H. Spacek ex-
pects delivery of La Grange’s
new fire truck within about a
week. The company officers of
the La Grange Voluntary Fire
Department will inspect the
equipment before asking the Ci-
ty Council to accept it. •
BULLETIN
Clarence Bohot, wm of Mrs.
Alvin Bohot of La Orange, suf-
fered an accident at Harris Elec-
tric Mfg. Co., in Smithville
which resulted in the loss ~ of
parts of 3 fingers.
BULLETIN
* Johnny Berry and Bobby Za-
palac are leaders at Camp Woo-
ten near Austin this week and
next. They are outstanding in
Boy Scout work and have been
asked to conduct speeial work
at the Camp with a special group.
BULLETIN
Receipts at Fanners Grain
Warehouse in La Grange through
Monday totaled nearly 55 car-
loads of maize. The ASC office
through last week had handled
85 CCC loan returns, with dis-
bursements at $65,785.03,
BULLETIN „ _
Two.SMSos aesttfents
been reported over the past w<
end, and two charges have been
filed. One charge was agriinst
Cal Willrich of Houston in S
smash up on Highway 71 East
Sunday. Jimmy Taylor of Col-
lege Station had slowed down
behind a transport when his auto
was Struck by Willrich’s, accord-
ing to Patrolman Charles Wade.
The other mishap happened on
South Jefferson Street when a
truck driver, Odel Holland of
Holland was charged and fined
$20.50 In Justice Court for fol-
lowing too close and causing an
accident. The truck struck the
rear of the car driven by Mrs.
Ethel P. Griffith of Corpus
Christ!.
to act to
tral, East, m
would be a
affecting the
All
rectly conne
duction, its
by - pro*
handling,
consumption will
the effects unless
action.
Wm. F.
the OCBA,
uation and its
County as well as all
OCBA area, has wired
Dwight D. Eisenhower as
lows:
“Newspapers state Hous
jccted farm BUI. On seven
casions you have expreaaed
pa thy for family
Please help them now by
(your) Influence to get this
passed, 1959 cotton
be reduced around 20
which would work hardship «a»
family-sized farmer.”
House Speaker Sam Rayburn,
who made discouraging remarks
about the pomiblllty for legisla-
tion this session on the cotfont
bill, was sent a wire from tte
OCBA President Hofmann ala»
as follows:
“Members of our Association
wish to thank you for effort yam
have made to get a much needadi
farm bill and urge you contimsfc
use your influence toward paaa-
age of bill at this session increas-
ing cotton acreage. Lade of le-
gislation now will have disas-
trous effect on consumption «E
cotton In this country, irrepant-
ble damage to textile industry)
and labor, further stimulate lm-
j-oads of synthetics in cottODk
markets and leave cotton far-
mers with bleak futora for
major crop. Failure to paaa
now will ba .a
✓ '
If no legislation passed
Arise a reduction of about six-
teen thousand acres in Fannin
Ccunty alone and will causa n
great hardship to- farmers and
business men in your district and.
all East, Central and South Tex-
as
The same telegram was seat
to Congressman W. R. Poage.
from Waco, with the substitution.
of pointing out to him how many
acres McLennan County would
lose if nothing Is done.
Cotton interests were hopefal
Tuesday over the bill
Herman Talmage of
which would freeze cotton
age quotas at last year’s level.
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Schools Custodians Course WiU Be
Held In La Grange AU Next Week
BULLETIN
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
announced at a press conference
Wednesday morning that it ap-
pears • major farm bill will be
passed this session.
Rayburn met with Joe Martin,
Republican leader in the House,
along with several members of
the Agriculture Committee a
thinks the bill will be brought
Monday by suspension of the
rules.
A custodians’ training course
will be held in La Grange for
one week beginning Monday,
August 18 and ending Friday,
August 22. C. A. Lemmons, Su-
perintendent of L« Grange Pub-
lic Schools, will be host to the
school.
Expected to attend will be
Giddlngs, Schulenburg, Smith-
ville, Flatonia, Bellville, Round
Top-Carmine, Fayetteville, Wei-
mar, La Grange and Columbus.
Mr. Lemmons stated that church
custodians and court house cus-
todians are also invited to at-
tend. However, registration fees
for them will be $7.50, while
schools personnel will register
for $5.00 -
Besides custodians, any ad-
ministrator, board member,
manager, supervisor, may attend.
A team of instructors from the
Industrial education department,
Division of Extension, the Uni-
versity of Texas will conduct
the training. The principal sub-
ject will be modern methods of
public building
gram in the
m. to noon:
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tori' program from 1 p. m. to 4
P. m.
The pridpal objectives of
building operation and
ance training program,
ing to Mr. Lemmons, is to
operation and maintenance i
to raise the standard of
maintenance; to
quality of custodial j
and to reduce ad
problems.
It is a signal honor that
been chosen
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Duewall, L. A. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1958, newspaper, August 14, 1958; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998856/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.