The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1993 Page: 4 of 14
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Page 4-Giddings, Texas, Times & News-Thursday, January 7, 1993
News in a Nutshell
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Horseracing, sightseeing to Port Arthur, Galveston &
Nasa. $200. per person includes all transportation,
lodging, tips, admissions and most meals. The Bus
leaves Austin at 6:15 AM, Taylor 7 AM and Giddings City
Park, 8 AM.
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Jr., son of Carolyn Bruce and Dems
Mulvihill Sr. of Vidalia, Louisiana.
Michelle and Denis will exchange
vows on February 13, 1993 at Trinity
Lutheran Church in Fedor
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to 40.25 inches. Giddings has al-
ready received more rainfall in the
first six months of the year than the
average annual rainfall.
In the first budget workshop for
Lee County, Judge Pete Kraus an-
nounced that cuts will have to be
made to make ends meet,
The excavation of the grave of
Giddings' most famous outlaw, Bill
Longley, has been set for August 23.
As July gets underway, all three
public school districts in Lee County
are still needing teachers.
The Lee County Hospital Board
met in special session to make sure
the hospital liability insurance
would not expire.
Hot, dry weather is forecast for
Lee County as farmers continue
planting peanuts. About 50 percent
of the Lee County peanut crop was
planted by last Friday, and farmers
are taking advantage of the dry con-
ditions to get into the fields and
plant their crops,
JULY 16
The Lee Memorial Hospital Dis-
trict Board of Directors have
learned that $19,000 in fund-raising
donations for the hospital have been
returned to donors.
Board president Rudy Mayer said
he found out about the refunds re-
cently and asked the chairman of
the committee how much had been
refunded.
The Lee County Sheriffs Depart-
ment was involved in two separate
drug busts Friday involving local
citizens.
The Lee County 9 and 10 year old
boys defeated Weimar 10-7 to claim
the championship of the District 13
All-Star tournament in Bellville.
Installation services are set for
Pastor Gordon F. Butler III at the
first Presbyterian Church in
Giddings.
The Lee County corn and sorghum
crops are about two weeks away
from being mature, with harvesting
expected to begin about the end of
July.
Operators active in the Giddings
Field as well as other Austin Chalk
fields along the trend have changed
gears and are finding ways to speed
up horizontal drilling.
County Judge Pete Kraus an-
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JULY 9
Heavy rainfall of over 8 inches in
M June brought the official Giddings
rainfall total for the first six months
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Lutheran Church of Serbin on Sun-
day, Aug. 16.
Rains which fell over the weekend*
helped offset the dry month of July
when only 1.91 inches of rain was.
officially recorded in Giddings.
High School football and volleyball'
workouts were scheduled to begin. .
on Monday, Aug. 10.
A federal appellate court made-
sure Monday that Texas school dis- .
tricts will be open for business as
usual in August by refusing to stop,.
the state s admittedly unconstitu-
tional county education districts
from collecting 1992 taxes. '
AUGUST 13
The Lee County sorghum grain
harvest will be above average this,
year, but not quite as good as ex- .
pected.
Schools around Lee County will
open for the fall semester next
week. ,
Horizontal drilling is finally mov-
ing into the Giddings area as sev-, ,
eral operators have just recently set
up rigs or started building drilling
pads just north of Giddings- an area, ,
where the technique had only been,
used sporadically by re-entering old .
wells. »’
The Giddings City council ap-,
proved a bid for repainting and re- ,
pairing the three city water towers
at a cost of $332,210, which was,
more than $20,000 under the origi-
nal estimates predicted by city en- ,
gineers.
The Giddings City council voted
Monday night to spend $12,000 to,.,
buy the access road to the Giddings
Industrial Park. ,,
Giddings and Lexington high
school football coaches reported ex-
cellent opening football workouts as
two-a-day workouts began Monday,
with both squads reporting in-
creased numbers on the first day of
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Mr. and Mrs Leonard Iselt of
Fedor announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of their
granddaughter. Michelle Lynn,
daughter of Delbert Iselt of
Lexington, to Denis Arthur Mulvihill
nounced that Lee County veterans
received a total of $1,054,695 in ben-
efits from the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs in 1991.
Both Giddings and Lexington
moved up in district football
rankings this year in Dave
Campbell's Texas Football Maga-
zine.
Senator Jim Turner has an-
nounced plans to introduce a bill
during the next regular session of
the Legislature limiting the power
of the Texas High-Speed Rail Au-
thority.
JULY 23
Newly hired Lee Memorial hospi-
tal administrator Johnny Cupit re-
signed by letter Saturday after his
first hospital board meeting Friday
night. In a letter to the board he
said, "In all honesty, there are not
funds to carry on."
Lee Memorial Hospital is moving
on with their plans for two rural
health care clinics for the county.
The Lee County Sheriffs Posse
will host the Youth Rodeo Associa-
tion finals next week, for the fourth
consecutive year.
After learning last week that the
Lee Memorial Hospital fund-raiser
committee returned $19,075 in do-
nations, the board is seeking a full
accountability from the committee.
The Giddings School Board ap-
proved changes in the school dress
code for middle school and high
school boys. This year, all boys in
the district will be allowed to wear
shorts.
Burglars hit a local Giddings home
last Tuesday and came away with
approximately $8,000 worth of
items.
The Giddings City Council has
been looking for a person to fill the
vacancy without success.
Giddings mayor Lavonne Morrow
said the city council is studying a
proposed budget with no tax in-
creases.
Conditions turned wetter in Lee
County last weekend just as Lee
County peanut farmers completed
about 90 percent of their summer
planting.
JULY 30
The Giddings School Board has
given the go-ahead for construction
of a new elementary school campus
in north Lexington.
The Lee County appraisal District
has released the certified property
values, revealing an 8 percent drop
in valuations.
Anyone wanting a notarized copy
of their birth certificate now has the
opportunity to get a computer copy
from the Lee County Clerk s office.
The Lee County commissioner s
Court has appointed a committee
Monday to set guidelines for a policy
on accepting requests for new roads.
Lee County's unemployment rate
eased downward last month to 4.5
percent from 5.1 percent in May.
Lee County Hospital Administra-
tor Katherine M. Tanner removed
Dr. Terry Duncan from the list of
doctors able to admit patients to Lee
Memorial Hospital.
Migrating swamis of Africanized
honey bees are now within about
100 miles of Lee County, already
reaching Victoria County in South
Texas this month.
AUGUST6
Two Lee County women sustained
critical injuries and three others
were also hurt in a headon collision
shortly before noon Tuesday involv-
ing a loaded dump truck and a com-
pact car 12 miles northeast of
Giddings on County Road 117.
Eight building permits were is-
sued in July totaling $84,550.
The Nails Creek Park on the Lee
County side of Lake Somerville will
be impacted by budget cues by the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment. Nails Creek will be slated for
reduced operation at their park
where upgraded campsites are be-
ing eliminated.
Black smoke rose skyward Mon-
day evening about 8 p.m. as fire
raged through the L.F. Manufactur-
ing Company building on U.S. 290
several miles east of Giddings,
heavily damaging the large steel
building.
Gordon L. Schumacher of Des
Moines, Iowa, will be installed as
the principal-teacher of St. Paul
Next trip is March 9, Yoakum "COUNTRY MUSIC USA". Sightseeing
starts at Antique Rose Emporium, Independence. Cost of $45. per
person includes all transporatation, meals, tips and admissions. Bus
leaves Austin 7 AM, Elgin 7:30 AM and Giddings City Park at 8 AM
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Open 7:30 a.m. thru 6:00 p.m. Mon. -Fri.,
Saturday clone at 5:00 p.m.
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Preuss, L. M., III & True, David G. The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1993, newspaper, January 7, 1993; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1598658/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.