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Our Seventy Secomd Yeur
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Offer Guarenteed Buys?
— VOLUME 72 - NUMBER 20
SEALY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1900
$2.50-$3.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
He needs your help...Prevent fires!
Begins This Afternoon
Savings Bond
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also well known tor his special thing new in entertainment here.
talent.
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Be Careful
FM 193 Extension
Snake Season
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Farm Income in 1960 Due
To Drop Even Further
Texas Farm
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nights.
ney and Paul of Shiner; two
and three great
will be a covered dish luncheon
train-
Ing sessions is
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Rev. Joe English officiating. The
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are activated and
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Crops Show
’59 Increase
Farm Safety
Week Set for.
Courthouse Move -
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Group Submits
Election Petition
28.8% AT WORK —
More Austin County
Women in Labor Force
THIS IS THE DAY! — O,
26th Firemen’s Frolic
Bellville and Sealy
Girls to Play at
Park Here Monday
• Two girls teams from Bellville
over the Dodgers, 13 to 7, with
Doug Krampitz and Steve Smith
pitching for the underdogs, and
James Schaffner, the winning
pitcher. Mike Michaelis pitcher
for the Braves, the 12 to 7 win-
scheduled for 7 p.m., at the
B&PW park. The Bellville Bee
Woes, girls ages 6 years and up,
Intricate Contraptions Being Installed
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Dairy cows need from 100 to
120 pounds of fresh, cleanwater
per head each day. An adequate
supply of water, conveniently
located for the cows and of the
desired temperature, can be a
major factor in keeping milk
production on A stable basis
Kucera Takes Over
SFA Park Manager's
Position July 20
Assigned the duties of a park
manager, Albert Kucera took on
Mrs. Beulah K. Hicks
Dies in Glen Rose
million boxes.
Grapefruit 4.2 million and
5 .8 million boxes.
Boy and Girl Staters
To Speak at Legion
Meeting on Monday
Local representatives to Blue-
bonnet Boy and Girl State in
Austin in June will be heard at
the meeting of the Sealy Legion
Post and Auxiliary at the Legion
kitchen at 7 p.m. Monday night
Miss Billye Jean Juries and
Johnnie Mlcak, and their par-
ents, have been invited to this
meeting, when a covered dish
supper will be served.
The fourth Monday night
meeting date is begun on a trial
basis, having changed from the
usual fourth Thursday night
schedule, for better attendance
due to less activities on Monday
the direction at Mrs. Hover
Hintz, in the first game.
The second game will feature
the Bellville AU Stars vs. the
local girls team managed by
Mrs. Bruce Viereck and Mrs.
Don Jousan. The AD Stars are
Joe Nesvadba's orchestra win
polish off the evening with mus-
ic for the dance which begins
at 9 p.m.
Hicks, 67, co-owner of The Sealy
News, 1944-1946, died in a Glen
Rose hospital Monday, July 11.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church In Glen
Rose with Dr. R. D. English and
the Bishop, and the newly con-
firmed.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this service. Bishop
Jerry Nalll has appeared on
TV and radio, and stage pro-
grams in and around Houston,
won the KFRD talent contest at
the Fort Bend County fair last
year, and has a spot in the mov-
ie, “Tomboy and the Champ,"
which was made in part at the
Houston Fat Sotck Show and
Rodeo in February and at the
Katy Fat Stock Show and Rodeo
in March. He has two new re-
cordings, "Barbecue Rock" and
"Lone Valley," which were sche-
duled for a July 4th release.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. E Nalll of Fresno, near
Houston.
Texas hospitals are crowded
with drivers who didn't think an
accident could happen to them.
La Grange Editor,
Well Known in Area,
Passes Thursday
Death came Thursday to John
L. Sulak, editor and manager of
The Fayette County Record at
La Grange.
Mr. Sulak passed away at Nix
Memorial Hospital at San An-
tonio at 1:50 p.m. Although he
had been ill since shortly after
Easter, his condition did not be-
come critical until only about a
week ago.
Following services at the Koe-
nig Funeral Home Chapel at
9:45 am. Saturday, Solemn Re-
quiem High Mass was said at
Sacred Heart Church at 10, with
Rt. Rev. Msgr. S. A. Zlentek the
celebrant. The Rev. Alfred Kal-
lus of Cameron was deacon and
the Rev. Harry Mazurklewicz of
Sacred Heart Church, the sub-
deacon.
La Grange, the community
and the entire arm — and cer-
tainly the newspaper fraternity
— truly have lost a willing, a
diligent and a most cooperative
helpmate.
WOW, Texaco, Austin County
State Bank and Ueckert’s Flow-
er Shop teams, Mias Anita
Machemehl, their manager.
Lyndon Johnson
Kidded in College
Book at San Marcos
Bill Hall Leaves •
Sealy School Band;
Goes to Austin
’A new director will be named
for the Sealy High School, fol-
lowing the resignation of W. C.
Hall. The office of Supt. Vernon
Madden stated Wednesday morn-
ing that no replacement has yet
been named.
Mr. Hall was elected by the
local school board earlier in the
year, and resigned only a few
days ago to take a position in
Austin. He and Mrs. Hall will
vacate the garage apartment of
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Diestel very
shortly. They have lived here
nearly four years.
On vacation at this time is V.
F. Svajda, school accountant. Mr.
and Mrs. Svajda and children
are visiting relatives.
Miss Diane Madden is assisting
with office duties at the school
during the summer.
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pitcher.
Friday night the Little Lea-
guers will not play a local game.
Instead the All Stars will play
Navasota in Brenham at 7:30
p.m. The winner of that game
will play the winner of the Bell-
ville-Brenham game the follow-
Ing night.
Taesday night the local lads
will play on schedule
Austin State Park at San Felipe
on July 20. He succeeds Mr. and
Mrs. Eldridge Bain, who have
returned to their former home
at Luling.
Mr. Kucera resigned as city
marshal of San Felipe. and he
and Mrs. Kucera will move into
the manager’s residence in the
park. She will continue to work
for Bill's Grocery.
Star participated In the services.
Interment was in the Evergreen
Cemetery in Ranger.
Mrs. Hicks had been in impair-
ed health for some time, but her
pissing early Monday was sud-
den.
She was the mother of Mrs.
Dee Brune of Sealy, who with
Mr. Bruno and daughters, at-
tended the services last week
Local Fireman at
Training School
A Sealy fireman began tratn-
ing this week at Texas A A M
College.
revised figures and this year’s
estimated production:
Corn 42,973,000 and 42,728,-
000.
Wheat 73,040,000 and 59,850,-
000.
Oats 33,130,000 and 26,473,-
000.
ing order. The functions of the
installed *
cent good fire record for al
dance at the annual school.
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to' the eplseopate, was a Fleet
Chaplain In the Navy during
World War H. Later, he became
Rector of St. Mark’s Church in
Houston which has well over
two thousand members. He was
consecrated bishop six years ago,
and is widely acclaimed as one
of the most interesting and pro-
found voices in the church. It is
hoped that many will take ad-
vantage of this opportunity to
hear him and meet this leader in
the church.
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directed by the "magic brain," moves fallen pins late
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This compact arrangement of cams and gears is the
"magic brain" of the new Brunswick automatic pin-
setters has been installed at the new Sealy Bowling
Palace west of town. John Jemela attended school in
According to Fire Chief Kerry
Nowak, the city gets a five per
two sisters pawed on before him.
Etlinger Funeral Home at
Sealy was in charge of arrange-
ments.
Bishop Clements to
Confirm Here at
St John’s Church
The Rt. Rev. James Parker
Clements, Suffragan Bishop of
the Diocese of Texas, will be at
St. John's Episcopal Church
here Sunday, July 24, at 11:00
a.m.
Bishop Clements will adminis-
ter the Sacrament of Holy Con-
firmation to six new members,
celebrate the Holy Communion,
snd preach. He will be assisted
by the Rev. Julian W. Jones,
Priest-in-Charge.
Following the service, there
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You probably know what in
traffic you'l do.
The petition for moving the
Austin County Courthouse from
Bellville to Sealy has been pre-
sented to Austin County Judge
W. D. Bryan at Bellville.
This petition was signed by
2018 people who represent ap-
proximately 58% of the free-
holders and qualified voters at
this county. The records Indicate
that of the 3996 freeholders, only
about 3500 are actually qualified
to vote. Residing in areas beyond
the boundaries of Austin County
disqualifies some voters even
though they have their tax
notices sent to Austin County.
Also disqualified are voters who
were ellgible but who foiled to
pay their poll tax.
The committee on moving the
courthouse from Bellville to
Sealy is formulating active piano
far the campaign when they
know definitely that there wil "
be an election op this issue.
in the pariah House in honor orwil yisit Sealy Monday night,
July 25, with the first game
Rice 11,370,000 and 3,136,000 grandchild,
hundredweight.
Oranges 2.3 million snd 3.2
Starting with the serving of
barbecued chicken and a concert
by the U. S. Army Fourth
Army Band, the 26th annual
Sealy Firemen's Frolic will get
underway at 5 p.m. today, July
21, as local firemen stage their
annual fund-raising event to
gain funds to operate the volun-
teer fire department. Many activ-
ities will keep visitors enter-
tained throughout the evening
and night at Firemen’s Park.
Organ music by Ken Fox,
with two talented , organists,
Bruce Barkis and Bob Shapley
from Hammond Organ Studios
in Houston, will be presented at
intervals.
W. F. Remmert will assist as
local master of ceremonies for
the evening, and will help the
program to move at a steady
pace. Performances will be given
on an outdoor stage in front at
the hall, as in previous years.
There will be plenty of cakes
and pastries and a variety of
cold drinks available on the
park grounds, phis an array of
concessions appropriate for the
occasion, among them Tommy
and the Wayne ducks, some-
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NEW YORK, JUNE 15. —
Each passing year finds more
and more Austin County women
joining the labor force. in dis-
regard of the one-time attitude
that “woman's place is in the
home.”
They are taking jobs in of-
fices, in stores, in factories, in
- professional fields and in other
lines of endeavor. "Women at
work” is the order of the day.
A recent government survey
and other studies indicate that
some 28.8 percent of the local
female population above the age
of 14 are to be found in the
labor force today.
This is below, however, the
ratio of working women in the
United States generally, an av-
erage of 35.2 percent. The State
of Texas average is 34.0 percent.
The figures are based on s
survey of the nation’s labor
force. Just announced by the De-
partment of Labor, showing the
year-by-year change in the
working ppoulation In each sec-
tion of the country.
At the time of the last cen-
sus It was found that there were
1,206 women, representing 21.6
percent of Austin County’s fe-
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hi . i6am
John Buechmann, 79,
Diet in Bellville;
Services Here Today
John Buschmann, 79, at
Sealy, died in the Bellville Hoe-
pi tal Tuesday, July 19, at 6:50
p.m., having been in falling
health since January of this
year. Funeral services will be
held today, Thursday, at 2:30
p.m. from the chapel of the Pete
E. Etlinger Funeral Home here,
the Rev. A. J. Mohr of Bellville
officiating. Interment will be in
New Ulm.
Mr. Buechmann was born in
Cat Spring October 26, 1880,
and was reared there. He follow-
ed the occupation of forming in
Mentz and Frelsburg communi-
ties. On August 15,1906, he was
married to Miss Emme Iselt,
who preceded him in death May
25, 1936. •
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs. Natalie Flak of Houston,
Mrs Olga Buechmann of Sealy;
one son, John H. Buechmann,
Houston; five sisters, Mrs. Min-
na Kroeger of La Grange, Mrs.
Ida Bielefeld of Sealy, Mrs. WI-
lie belt of New Ulm, Mrs. Hugo
Bosshamer of Houston and Mra.
Paul Mehner of Manor; four
brothers, Alvin of Sealy, Ed*
mund of New Ulm, Hugo of Ken-
July24-30th
Governor Price Daniel by pro-
clamaation has designated the
of July 24-30 as Farm
Week in Texas. This same
_ has also been designated
___rational Farm Safety Week
by the President of the United
States.
In his proclamation, Governor
Daniel said: “The nation's econ-
omy Is dependent upon the con-
tinued well-being and program
of our state’s agricultural popu-
lation. Accidents from farm
work cause needless suffering,
distress and loss of life each
year among our rural families.
“By directing the attention of
our rural residents to safety ed-
ucation, such worthwhile pro-
grams now being conducted can
greatly reduce accidents. I urge
all Texas farm families to in-
crease their vigilance against
needless accidents and further
encourage interested organiza-
tions and individuals to partici-
pate in this program.”
The Texas Farm and Ranch
Safety Council points out that
the purpose of the special week
is to focus attention on the year-
round need for reducing the
number of farm accidents, and
to cause those who can do some-
thing about the problem, to act
The former and his family, says
the council, must carry safety
into their everyday lives. Na-
tionally, they add, farm acci-
dents cost one and a quarter bil-
lion dollars annually, a sizable
sum any way you take IL
The ever-tightening cost-price
squeeze caused by agriculturists
makes accident prevention even
more important, says the coun-
cil, because a single costly acci-
dent can just about squeeze out
the profits from most farm en-
terprises.
The council joins Governor
Daniel in urging rural residents
and organizations to make safety
their number one project for the
months ahead.
ners of the game against the 1 _______-___-______
Yanks. Steve Sutton was losing De Leon Chapter of the Eastern
Sales Are Lagging mhesabor doron oerageli
Texas farmers wound up the
year with a substantial produc-
tion increase over 1958, the Ag-
riculture Department reported
in Washington in its final esti-
mate of output
Production gains were mads
for almost all major crops as
compared with 1958, except for
wheat
' The department estimated
Texas’ grain sorghum produc-
tion at 277,666,000 bushels com-
pared with 273,055,000 last year.
Sorghum is a late harvest crop.
The final estimate of the cot-
ton crop was made earlier at
4.5 million bales, compared
with 4,306,000 a year ago.
Other reports made on Texas
THE SEALY NEWS
Egg Council to
Meet EOM; On
First Tuesdays
The Austin County Egg Coun-
cil held its regular meeting on
July 11, at the West End School
with Sanford Schmidt presiding.
Mr. .Schmidt read s leter of
congratulations from Texas Egg
Council as the first county or-
ganized in the state.
Dues and time of meeting
were the topics that came up for
discussion.
., The month of June is anniver-
sary date and it was decided to
meet every other month starting
with September and the first
Tuesday in that month to be
regular meeting date.
The annual meeting of the
Texas Egg Council in August
was discussed. Members decided
that all officers of Austin Coun-
ty Egg Council would go to Ft
Worth to attend this meeting on
August 24.
Laddie Havran of Sealy was
appointed program chairman for
the next meeting on September
6 which will be held in Sealy.
The meeting place to be an-
nounced at a later date, accord-
ing to Mrs. Sam Vornkahl, re-
porter.
The nation’s farm income is
expected to drop further in
1960 despite a continued rise in
general business and an im-
proving world economic condi-
tion, an Agriculture Department
economist said at College Sta-
tion recently.
Bushrod W. Allin, chairman
of the department's Outlook and
Situation Board, told Texas
bankers meeting at Texas A &
M College that consumers, how-
ever, will have abundant food
supplies and they will cost less
during the coming year.
Speaking at the ninth annual
Texas Farm and Ranch Credit
School for Commercial Bank-
ers, Allin said the persistent
Clements, before being elevated managed by Johnnie Menke, will
meet the Seely Pee Wees under
Chicago for several weeks, and will do the job of
maintenance necessary to keep the units in good work-
pinsetters, 11 to bo
____________timed by this ingen-
device. The conveyor at the left.
in the 13 years ago group, and ■
are picked from four teams, the
Mrs. R. W. Hintz of Sealy
has a yearbook from her col-
lege years, from Southwest
Teachers College at San Mar-
cos, the Alma Mater of Vice
Presidential Nominee, Lyndon
Johnson, who Is pictured
therein.
In a special section of the
book, devoted to comic re-
marks and campus capers,
there appear the following re-
marks on Mr. Johnson: “Mas-
ter of the gentle art of spoof-
ing the general public.” In-
stead of his photo in this par-
ticular section of the book,
there appears a sketch of a
humble donkey, with the state-
ment: “As he looks to us on
the campus every day.” This
. . . remember . . . was when
he was a college soplomore. ,
The donkey, at least, has prov-
en for him to be of worth . . .
Mr. Johnson is last week’s
nominee and candidate for
vice president of the U. S. for
the Democrats, whose symbol
is the donkey.
Today, Lyndon Johnson is
U. S. Senate majority leader,
a man of current renown, and
is highly respected by his pol-
itical colleagues and the na-
tion’s leaders. A nominee for
president of the United States
by the Democratic party, he
lost to John Kennedy, but ac-
cepted the vice presidential,
candidacy.
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The representatives will have
two types of organs on the
grounds for the public’s inspec-
tion and musical enjoyment.
A round of Houston talent will
be featured at around 6:45 p.m.,
under the direction of Miss Car-
lon Markham, who will feature
Miss Shirley Sanders, Miss
Dimple Bean, Miss Lynda
Thomas, Joe Bravenec, the Hi-
Litem, Ted Shown, and Bud
Kelly. In addition there will be
Jerry Nalll, a 13-year-old singer,
Back Again
Beware of snakes. This is the
report coming in from game
wardens all over the state, ac-
cording to the director of law
enforcement of the Game and
Fish Commission at Austin.
With the advent of warm
weather, the snake movement
has begun throughout the state.
There are four kinds of
snakes in Texas. They are the
moccasin, copperhead, coral
snake and the rattler. Naturally
the moccasins are found around
water; the copperheads like cool
places around old rock piles,
barns and stacks of old lumber;
coral snakes also are found
around old tree stumps, under
vines and shrubs; the rattler
likely will be found most any
place. Many of them are killed
crossing highways.
Because there are so
nod-poisonous snakes
persons may take a chance,
instance, near Rockport last
week a group of school children
found a snake swimming along
the beach. They stuffed It in a
bag, believing it to be a harm-
less hognose. Later, however, it
developed the snake was a mas-
sasauga rattler.
Many of the harmless snakes
have value as mice catchers
and should not be molested. In
fact, the director warns, it is
best to leave all snakes alone,
except to kill off the poisonous
ones.
In Austin County *
During the first five months
of this year the citizens of Aus-
tin County purchased $162,285
in Series E and H United States
Savings Bonds. This announce-
ment was made today by Herbert
Vogelpohl, chairman of Austin
County Savings Bonds Commit-
tee.
“We have now achieved 39.6
percent of our 1960 goal of
$410,000.00 Chairman Vogel-
pohl reported May sales were
$47,372 in Austin County.
Texas sales for the first five
months of this year were $69,-
824,409, which represents 42.2%
of the 1960 goal of $165,500,-
000. May sales in Texas totaled
$12,341,632, which is $1,049,468
greater than sales in the same
month during 1959
"The United States Savings
Bonds program is one of the fin-
est ways of encouraging regular
savings. Through the payroll
pavings plan or other regular
purchases, millions of Americans
have become savers for the first
time They have found these
"save-as-you-earn" plans an
ideal way to build up financial
reserves for emergencies and for
special goals, such as sending
children through college, buying
• home, or supplementing re-
tirement income,” concluded Mr.
Vogelpohl, chairman of the Aus-
tin County Savings Bonds Com-
mittee
tendency of American farmers
each year to maintain high lev-
els or production — together
with the decline since Korea
of government-created war-
time demands for farm products
— explains the downtrend in
prices received by farmers since
1951.
At the same time, he said
prices paid by farmers for goods
and services used in production
have continued to rise, and are
expected to rise still further.
Because of improvements in
farm technology, a farmer can
produce in an hour of work
more than twice what he pro-
duced at the close at World
War II, the economist said.
Since then, the Labor Depart-
ment finds, there has been a
marked increase throughout the
section as a whole in the pro-
portion of working women. The
rise, applied locally, brings the
county’s ratio to 28.8 percent.
Most of the growth in the na-
tion’s female labor force is at-
tributed to married women work-
ers, who now number 13,586,-
000. In comparison, there are
only 5,162,000 single women and
3,628,000 widows and divorcees
who are working.
Among the factors contribut-
ing to this development are the
modem labor-saving devices in
the home and the ready-cooked
foods that are available, which
cut down the time needed by the
housewife for her chores.
Added to this is the fact that
women have been marrying
sooner, so that a majority of
them are in their mid-thirties
when their last child starts go-
ing to school.
The effect is seen in the rising
proportion of local jobs that are
held down by women.
There has been a general In-
crease of about 4.8 percent in
this direction since 1950, when
the survey showed that, in Aus-
tin County, 20.7 percent of all
employed people were women.
Braves Win Two
In Recent LL Play;
All Stars to Brenham
Steve Sutton pitched for the
Braves and Steve Weber for the
Yanks in their victorious
matches against the Cards and
Dodgers Friday night. The
Braves felled the Cards 6 to 3,
with Allan Remmert, losing
pitcher. The Yanks downed the
Dodgers 4 to 2, Steve Smith and
Rodney McGuire pitching for the
losers.
Talk Held by
Wallis Group
A group of property owners
east of Wallis met with Wallis
Chamber of Commerce directors
and County Judge W. D. Bryan,
Commissioner Eddie Hluchan
and Mr. St. John, High-
way engineer of Houston, last
week Monday night, July 11. The
purpose of the meeting was to
discuss the route of the exten-
sion of FM 1093 from the Bra-
zos River bridge near Simonton
to Highway 36 in Wallis.
At the same time W. E. Car-
michael and Mr Redding of the
highway department in Houston,
were meeting with officials in
Austin.
Word was received that funds
for the bridge across the river
have been approved. However,
no specific route has been an-
nounced for the read, which
would join the highway from
Eagle Labs at Wallis.
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