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Yoakum Herald-Times
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VOLl'ME LXXI1
PUBLISHED AT YOAKUM, TEXAS EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT YOAKUM. TEXAS 77995
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1970
10 CENTS PER COPY NO. 107
Memorial Service
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Veterans, civic and religious
organizations have been invited to
participate in the annual memo-
rial service that will be held Nov.
8th at Praha Cemetery.
The event is held on the Sun-
day preceding All Veterans Day
to honor the area’s war dead.
The memorial service will start
at 11 a.m. and a dinner will be
i served following the memorial.
Police And Firemen
Training Up
Mrs. A. J. House with hand-
(Jainted vase from the Orient...
admired hereby Rotary Club pro-
gram chairman and introducer
Jim Witte of Tex Tan.
MRS. A. J. HOUSE REPORTS ON
INTERESTING TOUR OF ORIENT
Fast trains, zipping along at
ISO miles per hour, glistening
Buddhas, and picturesque farms,
were all part of the itinerary of
a'tour of the Orient by Mrs. A.J.
House and Methodist minister
and Mvs. Joseph Ray of Yoakum.
The Yoakum trio were in company
with a number of tourists visiting
the Orient who left Seattle on
Jwly 28th for a period of three
weeks.
Japan is a highly industrialized
nation and rapidly growing.
Tokyo is the largest city in the
world and is served by some of
the fastest trains in existence,
Mrs. House explained to her Yoa-
Ipm Rotary Club audience here
last week at La Mancha.
The tourists visited Osaka and
Expo *70 while in Japan on what
igas termed by Mrs. House as
the "hottest day" she had ever
experienced. There were 3-hour
waiting lines to virtually every
building as a half-million per-
sons crammed the site on that
^learning hot day.
Their tour led to Bangkok and'
Buddas set in temples with
sparkling floors. House visits
necessitated the removal of shoes
of the visitors.
The American tourists, pri-
marily interested in Methodist
Qnrch facilities in the Orient,
attended church services at Tai-
peh and sang with the Methodist
Choir in that Far East city.
A visit to an orphanage in Korea
was quite impressive, Mi s.
House commented. The or-
phanage extend care to the
homeless children, many of whom
were fathered by American ser-
vicemen. Since in the Orient
the father is responsible for the
child, the young mothers are
forced to place these children in
orphanages due to financial dif-
ficulties.
The anniversary of Hiroshima
was a significant observance in
Japan, Mrs. House reported.
Many programs and news media
Nuclear Age which wiped out
two Japanese cities.
Mrs. House displayed some of
the various souvenirs she col-
lected on her tour and presented
these to the Rotary Club audience
during the course of her dis-
cussion. Mrs. House also ac-
companied by Mrs. Effie Jewel
Baggett of Collegeport, Mary-
land.
NEXT BARGAIN
DAY NOV. 3rd
Betty Burkett In
A&I Honor Society
HOCHHEIM PRAIRiE LODGE
NO. 90 MEETS NOV. 5th
Hodhheim Prairie Lodge No.
90 of the Sons of Hermann will
hold a special called meeting
Thursday night Nov. 5th, at 7
P.M. at Turner Hall. All mem-
bers are urged ‘o attend, please.
KINGSVILLE - One hundred
twenty-two Texas A&I University
students have attained grades
qualifying them for membership
in Alpha Cni National Honor So-
ciety.
“This recognition is the most
signal academic honor that a
student nuy achieve at Texas
A&I University outside of grad-
uating with distinction," said Dr.
George A. Cook, faculty advisor.
Among the honorees is M ss
Betty Jo Burkett, junior stu-
dent from Yoakum.
Fritz Boysen Rites
In Floresville
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SENIOR TRIO HAS PLANS FOR COLLEGE
• Scott Ernest K.iester, Thomas
Vrazel and Gene Rice, from !eft
.to right, comprise this trio
of YHS seniors who were the
visiting guests at last weeks
Rotary Club meeting at La Man-
cha.
Each week the Yoakum Ro-
tary Club hos*s senior boys from
'the local school in a student
visitation program. These guests
were introduced by Rotarian Ar-
mies Tiston as follows:
Scott K.iester, the son of Mr.
Mnd Mrs. Ernest Kuester of 402
Walnut, plans to attend Texas
Christian University following
graduation. He plans to study
agriculture and ranch manage-
ment. His high school subjects
include English IV, bookkeeping,
agriculture and physical educa-
tion. A member of the Science
Club and FFA, he will have 25
credits upon graduation.
Thomas Vrazel, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norbert B. Vrazel of
Rt. 2, Yoakum, plans to attend
Texas A&M University to study
mathematics. A member of the
German Club and in Voc. Ag.
three years, he has also parti-
cipated in Number Sense for
three years. His subjects include
trig., P. E., government, Texas
Better Lighting
System Needed
At YHS Stadium
Under GI Bill
The Veterans Administration
reported today a gain nationwide
in the number -- aim. st 90 per-
cent — of veterans taking police,
firemen and other "protective
service" training under the GI
Bill. The increase covered the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1970.
According to P. J. Mims, Di-
rector of the Houston VA Re
gional Office area, the increase,
from 14,000 to 26,030, includ-
ed veterans who studied courses
relating to positions of sheriff,
fish and game wardens, police
and firemen.
Personnel already qualified as
policem-n or firemen are not
eligible for training allowances
under the GI Bill for these pro-
grams.
The VA official Said police
and fire department officials in-
terested in setting up on-the-
job training programs may visit
or call the Houston VA Region-
al Office for more information.
The office is open Monday through
Friday, 8 to 1:33p m.
history, pnysics and English IV.
He will have 23 1/2 credits by
fommencement time at YHS.
Gene Rice, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Meeks Owen Rice of
Rt. 3, Yoakum, plans to attend
Victoria Junior College and Tex-
as A&M following graduation to
study engineering.
A member of the football sq rid,
he holds membership in the Art,
Science and Drama Clubs, and is
a member of the Student Coun-
cil. His subjects include Eng-
lish IV., trig, physics, govern-
ment, Speech I and athletics. He
will have 23 1/2 credits by the
the time he graduates next May.
Better light fixtures and wir-
ing Is needed at Bulldog Stad-
ium according to a survey
made by city utility personnel,
according to a report given
the Yoakum Rotary Club last
week by Clifton Long.
The light fivtures have de-
teriorated with age and should
be replaced, the report said.
Cross arms of the poles need
be replaced as well as some of
the poles, which are consider-
ed dangerous.
Larger fuse boxes and wea-
therproofed wiring was . also
recommended, since hot water
heaters are operating on sufff-
cient circuits, the report stat-
ed.
Better wiring to the score-
board clock is also recommend-
ed.
Four steel towers with
Quartz lights on each tower
are the recommended lighting
fixtures for the field.
The poles and fixtures are
neat ly twelve years old and
should be replaced soon. The
fixtures had also weathered at
least one very severe hurri-
cane and lesser storms.
Bee Hive Studio,
Coin Shop Opens
Floresville--Funer.il services
for Fritz Boysen, 70, a farm- r
who died at his home in Three
Oaks Friday, were held at 3
p.m. Sun lay in Vmyard Funeral
Hdme Cnapel. Birial was in
St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in
Puth,
He is survived by his w-fe,
Mrs. E'la Boysen: two sons, Alan
and Roland Boysen, both of San
Antonio, me sister, M-s. Arthur
Lange of Yoakum ?.il four grand-
children. X
Barbara's Bee Hive Studio
and Kitty and Bill's Coin Shop
is opening this week at 304
Lott Street, it was announced
today.
Located across the street
from the Post Office, the Stu-
dio will offer paintings and
Barbara Long's Bee Line
Christmas cards and memos
and a variety of get well and
birthday cards which can be
conveniently mailed across the
street.
The coin shop, featuring old
coins and silver, will he in
operation a little later this
month.
The studio will also offer
paintings by local artists who
wish to offer them for sale
through the Studio, Miss
explained and invited local ar
tists to contact her.
Promotion For
Mac H. Tanner
The promotion and transfer of
Mac H. Tanner, local Texas High-
way Department employee, was
announced bv C. V. Ramert, Dis-
trict Engineer, a'Ytiakum, Tex.
The change will be effective Nov.
1, 1970.
Mr. Tanner will succeed Mr.
Herman G. Botard, who is re-
tiring as Maintenance-Con-
struction Foreman 111 in charge
of highway maintenance ope-
rations in Lavaca Countv. Mr.
Tanner was born in Mize, Mis-
sissippi and is 35 years of age.
He began work for the Texas
Highway Department in Yoakum
on October 7, I960. On Oct.
1, 1968, he was made an as-
sistant foreman to the District
Special Job Construction Crww
Special Job Construction Crew
and became in charge of that crew
on March 1, 1970.
Mr. Tanner and his wife, Mar-
gie, have two sons, David and
Dale, and a daughter Diane. They
plan to make Hallettsville their
home in the ftiture.
Mrs. House To
Speak At
San Antonio
Mrs. A. J. House, of this
city, will be the speaker at *' The
Stella Woodall Circle” of Travis
Park United M.-thodist Church in
San Antonio on Tuesday, Nov.
10, at i0:00 a.m. Mrs. H mse
will tell about her recent tour
of the Orient, where she visited
Methodist Church facilities.
Mrs. House is a distinguished
Methodist aid speaker. Visitors
from Yoakum and vicinity are
invited to attend.
Stab Wounds Fatal To Yoakum Youth
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MASONS HONOR 50-YEAR MEMBER TRIO
VOTE TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 3rd,
ELECTION DAY
Yoakum Mi.sonic Lodge No.
662 A.F. 4 A .M ionore.1 a trio
of 50-year Master Mas ins, W'th
a banquet at the Masonic Lodge
heidq tarter.s Thursday evenin’
a! 7 p.m.
The event was preceded by a
ladies night banquet attended by
a n u in b ? r of visiting M ister
Masons and Lodge members of
surrounding towns.
TWO FIRES
OVER WEEKEND
Pi of u re 1 above with the
honorees in the center is Yoakum
Lodge Worshipful M sfei H ward
Johnson, left, honorees Alfred
Santleben of Victoria, Tiuna's
Ellis (Doc) Sistrunk of Hinge,
ani Herbert Wade of Yoakum,
Mister M sons of 50 vears a-
warded pins and certificates by
the District Depu’y GrandM ister
David A. Little of the Grand
Lodge of Texas, of Shiner.
Comi ii-.'ifs were heai d fr in Hie
honorees, a number o! visiting
guests, including Torn Cueatham
of Cuero, a pas' Grand officer
in various categ dies.
Trie re are now 13 50-vear
members m L -dge No. 602,
AF&AM.
F. C Sluepe of Yoakum, sec-
retary of the Lodge, gave com-
mendable accounts, assisting
W»n. Howard Johnson, WM.
Yoakum firemen answered two
fire calls over the weekend.
Hullow-en night at 10:30 p.m.
the call was to Plaza Hotel onW.
May Street where the boys were
summoned to douse a mattress
fire, apparently set afire from
smoking. There was no other
damage.
Earlv Sunday morning, Nov. 1st
at 2:33 a.m. a frame house be-
longing to Fred Voskamp of Hal-
lettsville was destroyed by fire.
Located juSf off Lavaca St. and
just outside the city limits, fire-
men were able to save adjacent
buildings. There was no one at
h >me it the time of the fire. The
home and contents were all lost
in the fire.
YHS MAJORETTES MAKE CLEAN
SWEEP OF UIL TWIRLING EVENT
President Adams, Jr., a
former Yoakum High School foot-
ball player, died of slab wounds
to the heart in a scuffle Saturday
night on Hurt Street.
Charged with murder is Mrs.
Bovce Marie Jones, 18, Yoakum,
who was Imne held on $5,000
bond. Charges were filed in
Justice of Peace E. A. Fields
court and Mis. Jones was con-
fined to the DeWitt County Jail
Sunday night.
Adams died inHuth M- modal
Hospital about midnight Saturday.
According to Yoakum Police
Cmef Bilh Moore and Officer
Sam R-neu i, assisted by local
officers. Adams was stabbed
after he had taken Mrs. Jones
to tiie home nf her parents, Mr.
and M s, Roosevelt Franklin, who
live, it 1 ! Burt Street. Friends
t Adim weie in the car and took
him ' the h spital.
Die st.ibl in. instrument was a
pocket knife, ace i dim to Police
Cfuel M ie, wii said the stab-
bing 'Ceurred ui the lawn .of the
Burt Street residence. Police
were notified >f the stabbing at
11:51 p.m.
President Adams formerly at-
tended Yoakum High School and
was a member >f the football
team.
Funeral services were pending
at Jamison Funeral Home early
Monday.
Among the survivors are his
parents, President Adams Sr. of
San Antonio and his mother Mrs.
Adams of Corpus Christi.
Saturday, the Yoakum High
School m.-.jorettes journeyed to
Louise for the annual Texas Umv.
Intersch >lastic League twirling,
solo and ensemble contest.
The majorettes entered their
group in their ensemble division
and then each girl made up her
owu solo and performed. This
was Yoakum’s dav in Louise
as all majorettes from Yoakum
High School received a first di-
vision of excellence in then solo.
Their ensemble also place! a
first division.
We also had four students not
majorettes going-to place excel-
lent and superior, Yoakum ' and
Businessmen Given Procedures
For Filing On Hoi Checks
B i s me s s: n'i i ve re given pro -
endures for filing on "hot check”
tinkers at the Hot Cneek Clinic
held here last week Wednesday in
cooperation with the Yoakum
Cham' er of Commerce.
Speaking at the Civic Room of
the First State Bank before an
audience of more than 75 jjer-
sms, Victoria attorney Cnnde
Anderson had some useful
pointers on how to collect money
on checks considered hot m
worthless.
Perhaps in .st im. Ttant is to
get the address of the nuker
of the check. The checks in st
be dated and not be more than
a year old. They rm st not be
on an out of state bank. There
are certain procedures in which
the maker is given a certain time
limit to pa\ the check, but these
can »ar> w.th the counties.
For ho' checks issued in
amount of less than $50, the per-
son convicted on a second of-
fense can serve time m the
county jail of not less than 30
days nor more than 2 years and
be fined not exceeding $2,000.
Hot checks inam mntsover$59
ire considered felonies ani pun-
ishable for n >* less than tw > vears
nor more than ten vears m the
.penitentiary.
Last week’s clinic was the
sec in I if a scries ot two w >rk-
sli ips sponsored bv the Y oakum
Cnatn!v»r >f Omi i roe tor the
benefit if Yoakum h isincsstnen.
director David Berhshausen ex-
plained. They were Denise Kil-
lers, receiving a first division
and Roxanne Sutton also a First
D.vision. Phyllis Kaiser and
Clara Elizondo placed a Second
Division if superior. Any solo
or group will place it on • first
Division if Excellent, .a lift!:
Illusion ;>f poor.
Band Direct :■ B. nis'nciscn
was quite pleased with 'ns stu-
dents as flu-' is quite an honor
to i’ll school. He was mainly
.ori id when Blanton McDonald,
the judge from Nederland, Texas,
came up to him ^fter the con-
test and asked who was their
instructor. He stated that they
have no instructor, only two
senior twrlers, then head
majorette and assistant head
majorette.
Mr. M‘ D uld also stated that
he had not seen as many good
twtrlers from me school in all
his vears of judging and he lid
no* want them fo think the\ were
being degraded bv giving them all
a Firs’ Division.
Twirlers for the Y lakum B 11-
dog Band are Julia Bernshausen,
Cathy I aufer, l unette Knippa,
Di in Cti a m r ad, Jo Be t h M e-
broff, Kithv M'Kenna, Assistant
head Miijorette Elaine Schaffiler,
and senior Head Majorette Grace
Hermansen
SAMPLE BALLOT
IN TODAY’S HERALD
T idav’s Herald-Times fea-
ture.-. a sample ballot for voters
of both DeWitt and Lavaca Coun-
ties. The portion of the ballot
for each county is marked se-
parately. Texans will also vote
n 7 constitutional amendments
as listed m the bottom of the
ball ' page.
DeWITT VOTING
PLACES LISTED
CTFRo--DeWitt County voting
sites for Tuesday’selection were
announced Saturday. Polls will
tie open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Precinct voting sites are as
follows.
Precinct l--Cuero Junior High
School, 2.—DeWitt County
Courthouse, 3--CueroCi tyHall,
4--Thoniaston, 5--Arneckeville.
6- Meversville, 7--Yorktown
City Hall, 8—Nordheim, 11--
Lindenau, 1J -- Hochheim,
15--Conerete, 17 -- Hochheim
Prairie.
18- Yoakum Fire Station,
22-- w e s t h ff, 23--Park Gar-
age in A ukt a;i, 24--Yoakum
East side Scho >1, 2S--Gruenau
Hall. 26--Cuero Lutheran Parish
Hi!., 27- Bear Creek Clubhouse,
28--C aei American Legion
Civic Center.
Optimists Choose
Michael Moore
Gus Schaffner Rites
Held In Cuero
Funeral services were held
al 2 p.m. Saturday in Cuero for
Gus Schaffner, 86, Cuero resident
who passed aw a v in a Cuero hos-
pital last week Thursday. He
moved to Cuero from W'esthoff
in 1961.
He was born in ldoon, Tex.
on Oct. 8, 1884 and married
Rosa Mueller in Yorktowi on
Of t. 20, 1910.
The Rev. H. A. Hanson of
St. Mark’s Lutheran church of-
ficiated wiili burial following in
the Westli ifl cem< 'erv.
Survivors are the wife, three
sons, A. W. Sctiafflier of Cuero,
P. G. Schaffner of Yoakum and
Leslie J. Schaffner of Arlington;
two daughters, Mrs. Willie
Warling of Golden, Colo., and
Mrs. Julius Baca of York-
town, a sister, M -s. Alma Leick
of Victoria, two brothers,
Cnarles Schaffner of Stayton and
Fred Schaffner of San Antonio,
and 14 grandchildren.
Michael E. M >"H , s ii t A >
kum Police Cmef and Mi .Hil-
ly E. M mre, was chovh "B
of the Month” fur O. • Vr !u
the Rosenberg-Richm ud < >j -
timist Club.
Mike, a senior at 1 am i C i-
sdidated, maintains a high grade
average and is m.iinlv interest-
ed n na'henntics and scie,n e.
A member of the National Honor
Society ani numerous school or-
ganizations, he also serves as
president of the Lamer Stu lent
Council. He was vice president
of the Student Council last year.
Since Mike’s parents have re-
cen'ly m ved to Yoakum, lie is
staying in Rosenberg with hts
uncle and aun‘, M>. ail Mrs.
L. J. Mikulenka, while finish-
ing his senior year at Lamar.
Upon graduation from Uainar,
Mike is p'.a.iiing to attend either
Texas A&M University or the
University of Texas. He is pre-
sently interested in majoring in
engineering or pharmacy.
MV<e has also had the honor
of being his sophomore class
president and he clas-> favorite
during his sophom re and junior
vears. He was a delegate to *he
Nuclear Energy Symposium a.id
lie Farm Bureau CitizenshipSe-
minar during the past summer.
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McLin Twins With SWTSU Band
Giving a big boost to the four-
unit Southwest Texas State U'niv.
Band Organization’s half-tim-
shows is Mark and Mike MoLtn
of Yoakum, both m?m’uers of the
playing unit.
The SWTSU Band, which re-
cently entertained at the Houston
Astrodome where this photo was
taken), will provide its usual ex-
citing half-time entertainment
during the SWTSU Homecoming
football game Nov. 7 at 2 p.m.
at Evans Field.
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