New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 4, 1958 Page: 1 of 6
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READ BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER LAVACA COUNTY NEWSPAPER
OF SERVICE TO ALL
CONTROLLED
BY NONE
VOLUME 85
NUMBER 40
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1958
TRIAL OF STEWART LUMPKIN
MOVED TO HALLETTSVILLE
Fender Skirts TRAIL RIDERS
Stolen Here STOP IN
Stewart Duff (Sandy) Lump-
kin, 17 year old confessed slay-
er of a West University Place
Houston, youth on Christmas
night, will stand trial for the
killing at Hallettsville, accord-
ing to a story in the Houston
Post.
: JL THE
SPADE
ROCKHOUNDS
The Reverend Roy Grote, who
pastors the Lutheran Church
down in Sinton, Texas, is a rock
hound. So great is his interest
in arrowheads, Indian lore and
the petrified palm that he has
his whole family enthused.
It was my privilege to visit in
his home last week. While there
he let me feast my eyes on his
collection of 3,777 arrowheads
He used to have three more,
but he gave those to me at
Christmastime and I had Harry
Hamilton make cuff links and
a tie bar out of them. And 1
am very proud to have them.
Recently he has taken up rock
hunting. Apparently he is speci-
alizing in petrified palm. And
so it happened that we took a
little ride over to Calihan, Tex-
as. First we visited in the home
of John and Bessie Mikus. Thet»
home is not much as a dwelling
place. But you should see that
collection of rocks. The house,
the yard are full of rocks and
petrified wood.
In a special room Mr. Mikus
showed us his diamond cutting
saw and special polishing ma-
chinery. A slice of petrified live-
oak or a slice of petrified palm
are certainly things of beauty
And Mr. Mikus said he was think
ing of devoting all of his time
to rock hunting. He supplies
rockhounds and tourists with
rocks. And I am told that a good
specimen of petrified palm is
worth about fifty cents a pound
without being polished. By the
way, some of you folks up Mo-
ravia way might remember John
Mikus. He told me that he had
been reared near Moravia.
From his place we went to the
home of the sheriff of McMullen
County to ask permission to
hunt for rocks on his ranch,
which he graciously granted.
And then I got to thinking, do
all sheriffs have ranches? And
then I believe I heard that Theo
Long, our sheriff has a ranch
also. So one of these days I’m
going to see whether I can hunt
for petrified palm on his ranch,
with Mr. Long’s permission.
The hunt on the sheriff’s
ranch was very interesting. Even
I found some petrified wood,
four pieces of petrified palm
And if that palm is worth fifty
(Continued on Page Three)
POLICE
ROUNDUP
The following were filed on
by the Texas Highway Patrol for
traffic violations:
Billie G. Goetz, Shiner, speed-
ing 78 mph.;
Odis Fehner, Route 2, Gon-
zales, speeding 73 mph.
Louis A. Miller, Nada, speed-
ing 76 mph.;
Emil M. Doubrava, Moulton,
used an expired driver’s license;
Joe Allen Clark, Harwood,
speeding 80 mph. and passing in
a no passing zone;
Benjamin J. Machalec, Moul-
ton, speeding 80 mph.;
Alonzo Hudson, San Antonio,
(Continued on Page Throe)
H’VILLESUN
Friday Night
the
Three In S. A
Calf Scramble
boys
'; ORGANIZED
(Continued on page three)
In Saturday Accident
was a sophomore student at T
211
Dolm-
YOUTH SPEAKS OUT!
DEATH TAKES A SATURDAY
possible internal injuries.
(ion near the Pustejovsky
Hal-
west
offer-
State
Ray Moore
and F. C.
4, Schulen-
those com-
ministered to as ambulance pulls
another of the injured, lying on
Julius
Sacred
By DON MINEAR
Teen Talk Editor
Trail Drivers were on route to
Hallettsville, a 1954 Ford coach
driven by Emmett King (col.) of
HallettsviPe, crashed into the
side of a 1957 Chevrolet driven
by Edward L, Starr of East Ber-
nard.
King and Starr were in a long
line of traffic passing the riders
when King pulled out to pass
Starr, but before clearing pull
ed into the side of the Chevrolet
causing about $35 damage to the
Chevorlet. King was filed on for
failure to pass to the left.
Fender skirts were
stolen Friday night
cars parked on the i
Hallettsville. Maxie '
ported skirts taken
1958 Ford.
West Division
Yoakum
Hallettsville
Moulton
Flatonia
Gonzales
La Grange
1 word to the
• participation
Saturday between 12:30 and 1:00 o’clock there was a
wreck. A terrible wreck which caused one girl’s death and
two others were terribly disfigured and will most likely
need plastic surgery. Four boys were also injured, three of
them seriously. I reached the scene in time to see them
scattered over the highway, with some of their faces smashed
to a pulp, lying in pools of their own blood and it made me
sick, sick, SICK!
You blame it on the boy who turned his car in front of
the other car. Perhaps he is to blame. He might have been
driving too fast, and failed to yield the right of way. But in-
directly you, the citizen, are guilty just the same as if you had
been driving the car yourself.
You ask, “How can I be to blame when I wasn’t even
there? That car was driven by a speed crazy kid.” Maybe
he was speed happy but you are still to blame.
There is no law in this town as far as traffic is concerned.
That went after a few people got their toes stepped on and
started to holler. Not only that, but if their son or daughter
happened to get a ticket they rushed out to defend them.
There are just as many adult drivers as there are young
people that run stop signs and fail to yield the right of way.
These are the people we pick up many of our driving habits
from. They need to be stopped just as much as young people,
but if they are, they yell loud and clear.
Saturday something horrible happened to arouse the
town’s anger and indignation to think that such as this could
happen. Yet it probably wouldn't have happened if you, the
citizen, had done something about it months ago.
Don’t put the blame entirely on this boy’s back, though
he might have caused this thing. Place part of it on your own
back, because you, the citizen, you, the parent, are also to
blame.
This boy will have to live the rest of his life with this
tragedy. Will you remember the rest of your life that you
HELPED cause this? You had better do more than just
THINK, you had better DO and ACT, because you were an
active participant in helping DEATH TAKE A SATURDAY!
HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS
FOUR WRECKS IN COUNTY
Monday morning,
Grahmann, driver of a
■ reported |
from two
streets
Tesch
from
The extension courses
ed by Southwest Texas
Teachers College, San Marcos,
will begin Thursday afternoon,
February 6 at 5:00 o’clock at
the high school.
The courses offered will be
English 135 and Speech 149T.
Anyone interested is asked to
meet at the high school at that
time.
ious condition were Miss Loretta
Iris Audilet. 19. daughter of Mr
and Mrs. (). A. Audilet of Houle
1, Yorktown and a sister of Mrs.
Franklin Jahn of Hallettsville:
Chas. Ray Schwartz, 22. a San
Antonio school teacher whose
ling, 19. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Starling and Wesley Bu-
ch a nek.
I la It on
19. son
K: rsh.
A real crowd pleasing event,
the Calf Scramble is directed by
Leon Kahanek of Hallettsville.
Blake McCreless of San Antonio
is superintendent of the event
assisted by Al Jonietz and a com
mittee of 30 east and south
Texas business and cattle&ien.
On Sunday, Feb. 16, at 6:00
p ,m. Patrick Janak of Rt. 4,
Ilallettsville; Gene
of Rt. 1, Yoakum
Sparks Jr., of Rt.
burg will be mong
peting.
Sunday, Feb 9, at 2:00 p.m.
Joe Lee Evans, Rt. 3, Halletts-
ville and Alton Hermes, Rt. 3,
Hallettsville will be entered.
Drozd had some $275 damage
r
home is in Baytown: Koger Star- were on route to Baytown where
they were to visit Mr. Schwartz’s
parents over the week end and
22, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Miss Schroeder was going to La
Buchanek. Dean Kersh.
of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
seventh person involved
a fair trial in the slaying of the
15 year old Jay Evans as the lat-
ter played with a toy rifle in
the driveway of his home.
Defense Attorney Jap C. Lott
called the transfer of the trial
to Hallettsville “a fair decision”
according to the Post. Prosecu-
tor Frank Briscoe, who pointed
out the faulty defense motion
for a change of venue to Judge
Dugan, had not comment.
Briscoe noted that the affi-
davit for the motion was signed
by the defense attorneys rather
than by the defendant himself.
The Post story stated at a
hearing on the change of venue,
Wednesday, newspaper, radio
and television representatives
were asked by Lott if they
thought Lumpkin could get a
fair trial in Harris County. A
majority of the newsmen said
they felt Lumpkin could get a
fair trial in the Harris County
court, but Judge Duggan said
he felt publicity given the case
would not permit one.
District Attorney Paul Boethel
(Continued on page three) ft
CONSTABLE REKER LISTS
THREE WEEK ERD WRECKS
ute to yield the right of way.
j At 12:45 Saturday, while in-
vestigating the fatal crash at the
intersection of Highways 90A
and 77 near the Timm Gulf
Service Station, a 1954 Fgrd
driven by Eugene Drozd of Hal-
lettsville and a 1950 Ford driven
by Geo A. Maze (col.) of Route
1 Hallettsville were in a coll-
•ion near the Pustejovsky gar-
in with stretcher. To the left near wrecked
the pavement.
One of the injured (in center of photo) being
car can be seen
sttideuL- were in one of the
■les coming into Halletts-
and Starling. Buchanek and
At 3:50 a m . Sunday morn-
ing, a 1950 Ford driven by Jer-
ry F Welfl left Highway 95 on
the right hand side 1-2 mile
north of Shiner and when he
pulled it back onto the highway,
lost control of the car It went
off on the left and skidded side-
ways down the highway to
crash into a tree, and roll on
down into a ditch.
Welfl was taken to the Wagner
Hospital in Shiner where he was
confined with undetermined in-
juries.
Sunday afternoon, 7.1 miles
Porte to visit a sister Mrs. John
Woernei Miss Audilet was to
stop off in Hallettsville to spend
the week end with her sister.
-Mrs. Franklin Jahn . .
Still in a critical condition in
Renger Hospital was Miss Janice
Lorraine Dolmseth.
ter of Mr. and Mrs.
TWO DADE
RDTH GROUPS
, The group was met at
Hallettsville city limits by Mayor
: M. I. Bozka and Chamber of
j Commerce President Bob Gind
I ler and escorted to the City Re-
| creation Park where the City of
I Hallettsville in cooperation with
i the Chamber of Commerce en-
tertained them with an old fash-
Heart School bus reported his jonecj cowboy stew supper at
bus had been drained of some <6 00 p. m, with more than 400
25 gallons of gasoline over the j riders going through the chow
week end. Constable Bill Renger
said Grahmann told him he had
filled the bus Friday afternoon
and found the gas tank drained
Monday morning.
neck broken right arm, ana
She
Constable Bill Renger was the
investigating officer for three
wrecks within the city limits of
Hallettsville Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
Friday afternoon near the
JRK Cafe on West Third Street,
at 5:45, a 1949 Ford driven by
John J. Smolik, traveling west,
hit the left rear fender of a 1952
Chevrolet traveling east Ad
driven by Alphonse Holy, cau*-
ing some $25 damage to the rear
fender of the Chevrolet and «-
bout $50 to the front end of the
Ford.
Renger said the two cars were
passing, and Smolik pulled over. r - . f
into the rear fender of Holly’a tro-' - . .
car.
Smolik was filed on for fail*
Extension Courses
Begin Thursday
Three Hallettsville 4-H
will be among the 240
FFA and 4-H club boys to scram |
ble for calves during the San An |
tonio Livestock Show and Expo- t
sion.
1 line.
j Sunday night a free dance was
staged at the Recreation Hall
I for the trail riders who left at
I dawn Monday morning on the
I second leg of their journey
! which will find them at Gon-
I zales Monday night.
-----------o-----------
,t Drozd was coming into
tettsville and Maze going
from town when Maze made a
left turn in froht of Drozd with
Erozd hitting the left side of
the 1950,Ford with his right
Monday morning, the Texas I causing liglit damage to the car.
Highway Patrol reported a total
of four wrecks investigated in
the county, two near Shiner, one
near Moulton and another east
of Hallettsville on Highway 90A
during the Texas Trail Drive.
First to be investigated was
on January 29. one-tenth of a i
mile south of Moulton on High-
way 95, when a 1954 Mercury
coach driven by Leonard R
Hayden of Yoakum hit a 1950
Willys Jeep driven by Hazel S
Johnson of Moulton.
The officers said both cars
were traveling toward Moulton
with Harper pulling out to pass
the Jeep when Johnson attempt east of Hallettsville near the O.
ed a left turn with the Mercury | J Woytek place where the Texas
hitting the Jeep on the left rear
Johnson was taken to the Wag-
ner Hospital in Shiner where he
was confined for treatment of a
dislocated shoulder and other
injuries,
The Mercury was damaged to
the extent of some $350 and the
Jeep was undamaged in the col-
lision.
Saturday night, Daniel J. Pek-
ar of Route 2, Shiner, failed to
make a curve on a rural road
and rolled a 1940 Chevrolet he
(Continued on Page Three) i was driving, escaping injury and
Approximately 600 trail rid-
ers arrived in Hallettsville a-
of bout 5:00 p. m., Sunday after-
re-1 noon to spend the first night of
his their trek to San Antonio where
they are due to arrive in time
i for the opening of the San
The same night a set of fend-' tonio Livestock Show and
er skirts was taken off a 1957 position.
Ford parked at the corner of j
Highway 77 and Second Street
while its owner, Andrew Brown,
was at-
Monday, February 3, 7:30 p.
m. Regular meeting of WSCS.
Methodist Fellowship Hall.
Tuesday, February 4, 8:00 p
m. Hermann Sons meeting. La-
vacan Cafe.
Wednesday, February 5, 7:30
p. m. American Legion meete at
NYA Building.
Thursday, February 6, 7:30
p m. Wittirig P-TA meeting.
Films will be shown.
Thursday, February 6, 8:00 p.
m. Vsetin Lutheran Ladies Aid
meeting. Home of Mrs. Otto Bo-
tard of Sheridan. Visitors wel-
come.
Left, Schwartz car; right, Kersh car, after injured removed from scene.
hiAc Civ IniiirOfl
VnC Irlw^r JIA iniUlvU
League, leaving the door open w ■
for forming a third group if at
least five towns commit them-
selves before the deadline. At-
tending the meeting from Hal-
lettsville were Jack Lindsey and
Carlwyn Werner.
_The group unanimously elect-1
ed Al Kasparek of Weimar as
president and Dr. W. T. Youens
of Columbus, vice-president, and
instructed President Kasparek
to choose a secretary.
In the present setup these are
the teams (to be re-shuffled a
bit if a third division is formed):
East Division 1
Sealy
Columbus
Garwood
East Bernard
Sheridan
Weimar
Four teams sent
meeting that their
hinges un getting lighted fields
ready in time. They are Bell-
ville, Shiner, Luling, and one
Gonzales team. None will be al-
lowed to join the league unless
they can get at least one addi-
tional town.
Carlwyn Werner said league
play will begin June 1 with the
teams playing every Monday and.
Thursday nights, and club rofl|
The story said District Judge |
Ed Duggan transferred the case j
on his own motion, Tuesday,
January 28. fl had been schedul-
ed to begin in Houston February
10.
Overruling a defense motion
for a change of venue on the
grounds that an affidavit for the
motion was faulty, Judge Dug-
gan moved the trial because ol
“widespread publicity” which he
said prejudiced the citizens of
Harris County.
The Post story said Judge
Duggan stated he felt Harris ^oute 1, Hallettsville,
County could not offer Lumpkin I tending the show.
Seven young people were in-
jured. three critically, about
12:30 p.m. Saaturday, in a head
on collision at the interesection
of Highways 77 and 90 A a*
the Timm Gulf Service Station,
one of the critically injured pass-
ing away some 14 hours later in
the Renger Hospital. One re-
mained on the critical list Mon-
day morning and four were still
listed as serious. Three of the
seven were students at Texas
Lutheran College. Seguin, one a
San Antonio school teacher and
the other three were Halletts-
ville boys.
The accident was termed the
worst in the history of Halletts-
ville.
The dead student was Miss Au-
drey Jean Schroeder. 19, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs Edwin Sch-
’ roeder of Route 2, Yorktown,
She died at 2:30 Sunday morn-
b ing. She had suffered a broken
Exact cause of the accident
was still undetermined, but it
was surmised that Kersh at-
tempted to make a left turn on
Io Highway 77 into the path of
the Schwartz car coming into
Hallettsville on Highway 90A
with the two cars hitting h<ead-
on. tossing the occupants of the
Schwartz, car onto the pavement.
The cars were demolished
According to doctors at the
Renger Hospital who attended
the wreck victims. Miss Schroe-
der stopped breathing about 10
p.m. Saturday night when paral-
ysis resulted from the broken
neck and she was kept alive un-
til about 2:30 with oxygen. _
Schwartz was reported to be
suffering two breaks in his left
leg just below the hip, a brok-
en right leg just above the an-
kle, a broken right arm, cute,
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Minear, Virgil. New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 4, 1958, newspaper, February 4, 1958; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178335/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Lavaca+County+-+Hallettsville%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.