The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1961 Page: 1 of 10
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Reuben Coleman, winner of the
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VOLUME 22
NUMBER 20
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Texas and at
Iowa
DAROLD G. HAVARD
Bible Institute Set for 2nd Year
tute. this week announced that the
The expansion program is ne-
moved there last Tuesday morn-
headquarters early Friday, is al-
Box and brought the entire bonus
The September call for Texas’
member of the Ellinger Chamber
ber Co.
Co-ops Meet in San Antonio
aterials
New Sales Tax Needs Clarification
James Turman of Gober (Fannin
speaker of the Texas
House of Representatives:
Rich-
ard A Dell of Washington, D. C.,
the officers, including President I R.
A Yarbrough of Childress,
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federal income tax by those who commercial operators license.
Marvin Teinert Sells First Peanuts
Marvin Teinert of Warda sold
et
where more than 200,000 entries.
Ed. Kruse, manager of Blue Bell
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disposition of the cattle after they
nave been sold in the ring.
Inc., J. R Cobb of Austin.
Activities of the past year will
Miss Mattox accepted the assi-
tant professorship after getting her
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I Tigers were
and Rock Dra-
y by a 20 to 0
with 4 for 5
vith a one-on
cintillated for
Maurice Eng-
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in the second period of The Star's
Subscription campaign, which en-
ded at 5 p. m. Tuesday, and took
the Rexall blanket offered as a
prize by Wahrmund Rexal Drug.
The MYF amassed a total of
2875 points during the second pe-
riod to cop the special prize for
the period.
is a 53-year-old ice cream com-
pany operating in 30 counties over
State Draft Quota for September
Almost Double of August Quota
Omega Chapter of the Delta Cap-
pa Gamma Chapter at Brenham
which met in the home of Mrs C.
D. Dallmcyer on Wednesday, Aug-
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Leroy Wiederhold
Has First Bale.
‘ Leroy Wiederhold brought the
was the day of the weekly sessions.
Six instructors have been named
Wednesday, August 30 from 7:30
until 9:00 o'clock. Choir director
John J Socha said the group will
begin working on new music of
the 1961 Christmas Pageant. The
accumulate 2875 points in three
days of effort put in during the
second period.
There are 16 days left in the
contest and the more new sub-
scriptions sold the bigger the bo-
nus points for those subscriptions.
In addition the contestants are
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arket
able Prices
Sausage
Hargreaves Ranch in Harris Co-
unty and returned to France on
Monday of this week.
The third one is from Southern
Rodesia and started learning the
cattle business on the Cliff Ram-
Miss Hattox Accepts Professorship
At University of Utah at Salt Lake
cordia faculty, and Edward J Ke-
uer. Executive Director of Chris-
to teach the courses outlined for
this year’s program They are Pro
fessors Sam I Goiterman; presi-
New Chamber Manager Has Wide
Experience in Promotional Work
College and then completed two
years of junior college work at
John Tarleton.
After one summer at North Tex
as State at Denton , she transfer-
red to the University of Texas,
where she received her bachelor
of science degree in Home Econo-
mics in 1937. During her senior
year she was elected to Omicron
Nu , national Honor Fraternity for
Home Economics, whose member-
ship is limited to the upper five
per cent of the senior class.
Continuing her college training
in summer school, she received her
masters degree from the Univer-
sity of Texas in' 1947. Since then
she has completed two additional
years of graduate work at the Uni-
dings in 196J on Wednesday morn-
ing, August 16, to .Dorman Sell of
the Lee County Peanut Co. I -
The first 1961 peanuts beat the
first 1960 load of peanuts by two
at 5 p. m. on Friday, Sept. 1. Tire
prize for this period will be a 17-
Jewel Timex Watch to be awarded
in worship services every fourth
Sunday of the month and on many
special oceassions.
An invitation has been extended
to all members of Immanuel in-
forested in singing with the Mixed
Choir, to be present for the Wed-
nesday night opening.
Skaggs made his escape during
a rest stop at the Texas Garage in
Carmine. He scuffled with one of
the officers and threw a shoe at
ture will have to be determined
by an attorney general’s decision
and it is believed that all outer
curately how much the next sales
tax law will cost any particular,
family, according to Jim McGrew,
research director of the Texas Re-
search League at Austin.
A great deal will depend on the
amount of money a family will
spend and what it is spent for, he
indicated.
Any article costing no more than
24 cents will be free of taxes. Then
there is the exemption of working
clothing which will be exempt if it
costs less than $10.00. The law spe-
cifically states "working clothing"
in one place and then refers to “ou-
ter wearing apparel" in another
place.
tion. This cannot be certain, how-
ever, until a formal ruling has
been made.
The tax will be applied by char-
ging one cent tax for purchases
of 25 cents to 74 cents: 2 cents
| on ppurchases from 75 cents to
$124; 3 cents for purchases from
accepted an assistant professorhip
at the Univessity of Utah at Salt
Lake City.
She will teach two courses daily
trustees.
She is a native of Comanche and
received her high school diploma
from John Tarleton Preparatory
win depend on what they spent
the money for.
The only tax that is definite is
the increase in the driver's licen-
ses. They will go up from $2 to
$3 for the operators license re-
quired from the average motorist,
from $4 to $6 for the chauffer’s 11-
expense paid trip to fabulous Nas- Blue Bell Creameries of Brenham
sau for two ft was announced by
the office or call him and he will
talk with you.
Mr. Hayard is a- graduate of
Sam Houston at Huntsville and
has completed his masters work
there except for his theses on which
■ he is working.
He has served A and M College
as a training consultant and is
still active in that capactiy. having
sponsored three foreign students
in, positions here and seeking, to
place one at this time.
The first one of these was from
near Johannesburg, So. Africa, and
worked on the Plantation Ranch
in Liberty County and later on the
King Ranch, to learn the cattle
I business. He has returned home
to work on his family’s ranch in
South Africa.
The second one was from France
He also worked on the Plantation
Ranch in Li berty -County and has
just completed hs work on the
ions while they are shooting for
the big prizes.
The competition between Reu-
ben Coleman and the MYF team
is interesting to watch. Although
we speak of Reuben Coleman, we
really are speaking of the Reuben
Coleman team. This young enter-
prising man has enlisted the help
of his cousins, aunts and uncles,
all of whom are working. {.
In the meantime the subscrip-
tion list at The Star is growing
lustily so that the press run has
to be increased each week.
Full steam ahead! There’s a Ti-
mex Watch and $85 in cash wait-
ing for the leaders, come Sept. 1.K
caders:
points)
2-pt 1-pt. Tot.
were submitted by Blue Bell cus-
tomers competing to win an all-in the month of July.
uer, Exc cutive Director of Chris- phey Ranch at Montgomery. Since
tian Education of the Texas. Dis- | the resignation of the manager of
Miss Fay Hattox, who taught, versity—of
Home Economics at Giddings High State University. •
School for the past nine years, has
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and School Socha added that the
_ Institute" sessions will be held
each. Tuesday Last year Thursday
AUSTIN, Texas, August 11— The
state draft quota for September,
on file at state Selective Service
.deputy administrator of the Rural
be reviewed by manager Cobb and j Electrification Administration; and
It will be possible to claim cre-
dit for the state sales tax on the cense, and from $3 to $4.50 for the
wearingapparel, costing less than
mixed choir is scheduled to sing $10.00 will be excluded from taxa-
Advance.re rvations
a record attend-" cc for the Twenty
First Annual Meeting of Texas'
has been announced a third place ply of Blue Bell Supreme Ice
winner in Blue Bell Ice Cream's ~
recent Vacation _Fiesta Contest
John J Socha, Dean of the Cen. Ident of Lutheran Congordia College
tral Texas Lutheran Bibl. Insti- Richard Dinda, also of the Con-
the cotton and seed, were sup-
plied by the merchants of Dime
predicted to win
its district this year in football. •
Coach Jackson and son, Randy,
weeks. John Teinert of Warda Sold
the first load in Giddings on Sept.
1 I960, , • .
Mr Teinert’s 1961 load of pea-
nuts weighed 1705 pounds '
test had not yet been taken at
Creameries —..............-—the South and Central Texas area
Mrs Tate’s name was drawn including several outlets in this
ns third place winner for which area.
Cream: Eight third prizes, consist
ing of a six-month's suppy of Blue
| Bell Supreme Ice Cream, were
awarded. This contest was held
impossible because the four other
mental patients were not hand-
cuffed and required the attention
of the officers.
After notifying the local law of-
ficers the Houston officers deli-
vered the four remaining patients
to Austin and then, returned to
pick up Skaggs? " -
each contestant during the first
two periods towards the three
I Her professional experience, be-
sides the nine years at Giddings
includes teaching elementary and
high chools in Texas, teaching at
Texas Technological College in
Lubbock, teaching in the Exten-
sion Service of Texas A and M
College and doing research for the
There's no way to predict ac- $1.25 to S1 74. and one cent more
for each 50 cents or fraction
thereafter.
1 Either term is vague, since ev-
en "working clothing” is hard to
define. The intent, of the legisla- the first load of peanuts in Gid-
man k
Dealer 1 ,
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MYF Wins Rexall Blanket in Star Subscription Campaign
The MYF team came on strong D—1— A----- - * - - -- t
grand prizes in cash at the end of
the contest.
The race between Reuben Cole-
man anti the MYF team will be
hot from here on out, but no one
can count out Jerry Jackson or
any other contestant, since the
MYF demonstrated that they could
Savings Bond during the first per-
iod, still is in the lead for the
grand prizes with a total of 7200
points against the MYF’s total
of 3875 points .
In third place at this time is
Jerry Jackson. ................
The third period started at 5 p.
m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 and will close
merce awarded $15 to Mr. Teinert
for this first load of peanuts in
1961.
GENE PARKER IS
ASSISTANT COACH AT TAFT
Mr and Mrs Gene O. Parker and
of Commerce which operates the Doctor Gordon Clinard, also of
local city affairs. His wife is the South-Western Theological Semi-
former Lillian Hrachovy of Ellin-nary, where he is professor of
ger. ■ 1 preaching. He will be the inspira- 9.
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ty head of cattle. All pens will be
under shed.
It was noted that this week
marks the completion of the first
year of operation of the Livestock
Commission by Mr. Tobias, who
took over the managership August
16, 1960. -
second annual eight-week session
will begin Tuesday, September 19 -. 1111 .
. 7......1 - Curtrict Three local men, who will the ranch.
■ ■ - 1 round out the Institute staff are Now Mr. Harvard has been as-
cessitated by the fact that both
producers and buyers have been
supplying good grades of cattle and
buyers have been attracted from
many surrounding areas. In ad-
dition, more 'statewide and na-
ional buyers have been keeping the
local sales active.
Tobias said an alley will divide
16 x 28 foot pens each running
about two miles from Carmine in .
some woods, in Home Economics Education to
junior and senior Home Economics
majors at the University.
Baptist Brotherhood Round-Up Set
For Highland Lakes, Aug. 25 - 26
The. Fifteenth Annual Baptist tional speaker during the round-up.
Brotherhood’ Round-Up ts schedu- Song services will be under the
led for August 25 and 26,1961 at 1 direction of Reverend Everett
the Highland Lakes Baptist En- . — - ,
campment, 22 miles west of Austin Martin of Austin and assisting
on highway 71 west. The encap-him will be John E. Moore of Tay-
ment is one of the beauty spots of | lor and James M. Clay of Austin,
indicate according to the general manager
f Texas Electric Cooperative, County)
by the Western Auto Associate
Store in Giddings,
Again only the points earned du-
ring this period will count for the
special prize by Western Auto, but
these points will be added to the
grand total already earned by
son. Gene O., have moved to Taft,
Texas where Coach Parker has ac-
cepted the position of assistant
- football coach at Taft High School.
; The Parkers have-been residing
The in Austin this summer and stop.
— ped in Giddings to visit friends
presstime., , while on their way to Houston on
The Giddings Chamber of Com- I vacation a few weeks ago-= -
The seed weighed 867 pounds west of Odessa,
and was purchased by the Arnold Monahans is
W Hannes Gin at $53 per ton o-
ther bonuses besides the bonus on
a j n . release from a contract with the
him and fled across the highway | ,
a _: Big Spring High School board of
into some woods. Pursuit was made 1
GIDDINGS. LEE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUG. 17. 1961
Rev A. A. Arndt, pastor of St. j signed the duty to find location
Paul Lutheran Church of Serbin, for another Rhodesian who wishes
Rev. Max Studtmann, pastor of. to learn the cattle business,
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Gid- -------'• ------------:—:—•----
E. . Florence of Douglassville and
Secretary-Treasurer W R. Barron
of Franklin The terms of Flor-
ence , Barro, and Vice-President
W O. Burch of Sinton expire this
year.
Nominated tosuceed them, res-
pectively, are Milton Potts of Liv-
ingston, F. C. Luedtke of McGre-
gor, and C. C. Sanders of Karnes
City. *
Addresses will also be made by
earning themselves some nice
spending money in cash commiss.
Central Texas and for the few years - This meeting is expected to bring
it has been in operation it has, from six to eight hundred men to
been the site of many Baptist Bro-1
therhood Meetings, bringing them the encampment for the two-day
from all parts of Texas for fellow-program. District 15 is comprised
ship and denominational work of eight associations in the Central
™ ,Texas area which is under the
The round-up serves as a train-supervision of Reverend Finis
ing program for brotherhood men Williams
and their own churches as well as ’
men engaged in the widely-known, ! All Baptist men are urged to at-
which is one of the largest denom- tend, and if they like may bring a
inational youth programs in this guest. For groups planning"'to at-
tend, reservations may be made
Mrs. M. Y. Tate Wins Third
Place in Blue Bell Contest
Mrs M Y Tate of Giddings she will receive a six-month sup-
Carmine Is Scene
Of Man Hunt
Herbert E. Skaggs; 21, of Ray
Ohio, a mental patjent being taken
by Houston officers to the State
Mental Institute in Austin, mana-
ged to escape at Carmine Monday
morning , but was recaptured
shortly. .
Deputy Sheriff C. A. Prilop of
La Grange and Sheriff Johnny
Schulte and Deputy Sheriff Arnold
Loesch of Brenham with blood
hounds from Brenham instituted
a manhunt and recaptured Skaggs
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NOTICE
Giddings High School students
desiring transportation to the
Rockdale game are asked to come
by the school during the week of
August 21-25.
Thirty-five students must desire
transportation to the Rockdale
game before a bus will be taken.
Tentative bus departure sched-
ule — 6:30 p m. September 1.
77 rural electric systems beginning
Thursday (August-17) in San An-
tonio.
Delegates representing 365,000
rural and suburban families ac--
ross the state, will be addressed by
US Senator Haiph-Yarborough Fri
day, the closing day of the con-
vention.
Choosing as their theme, “The
Future in Focus," the state’s ru-
ral electric leaders will discuss and
outline ways and means of aug-
menting the development of rural
areas Most discussions will cen-
ter primarily around this need.
file itemized returns. But this
could only be of advantage to those
in the $10,000 and higher brackets.
A rough estimate is that a fa-
mily with $5000 income will spend
from $35 to $40 annually in sales
taxes But as indicated above it
• Ginn processed the cotton free.
Immanuel Choir
Rehearsal Set _
The first rehearsal of the Mixed
Choir of Immanuel Lutheran
Church of Giddings wifi be held
■ in: T 1his oamn.I most double the August call.
| To Coach Jackson and. P
to $106 55 The Arnold w Hannes ily we wish the most success in
Monahans - - 137 draft boards is 1.112 compared
$ Bureau of ' Human Nutrition
" and Home Economics of the United,
I States Department of Agriculture.
H During the past year she ser- F
I ved as president of the Texas Exes 1-
0 in Home Economics . In addition
cr to membership in Omicron Nu
- she also holds membership in the
. following professional organizations
1 The American Home Economics
" Association, the Texas Home Ec-
.. onomics Association, the Texas
. Home Economics Association, the
State Teachers Association, and
■ Delta Kappa Gamma.
i Miss Hattox has asked that the
M Star express her appreciation to
M her friends in Giddings for all the
nice years she had here. These
friends wish her the best of every
thing in her new position. ..
Darold G. Havard, fresh from
a Chamber of Commerce Insti- -
—tute at the University of Houston,
came to Giddings last week to as-
sume his duties as the new mana-
‘ ger of the Giddings Chamber of 1 .
—Commerce,-:------=
A native of Dayton, Texas, Mr.
where'he worked out of the Cham- ..
ber of Commerce office with the
Havard comes from .Beaumont.
Young Businessmen's League as ■
chairman of the rice exhibits and
contest of the South Texas State
Fair--,
- Since this will be the first time
that he is at the head of a chamber
of commerce office, he invites the
businessmen of Giddings to feel
free to make suggestions as to
their ideas of making improve-
ments in the operation of the of-
fice. He has his own ideas, but is
ready to adjust them to fit the
needs of Giddings . Visit _him at
The retailer must collect the tax
from the ultimate customer. Ad-
vertising that the merchant will
• absorb the tax is illegal under the
terms of the law.
The retailer must make the re-
turns to the State Comptroller
once each quarter. He- will be per-
mitted to retain from one to two
per cent for his trouble in collect-
ing’the tax. —-----
dings, and Mr. Martin Schuetze. ---.— .
principal of St. Michael's Lutheran a g I ■
School of Winchester, 11 v ■ Plane a vnaRE
Registration will begin after La W UN * I VA LIVTJIVUN I idlo AGlulVA
bor Day with Walter Hohle, Insti-
tute Registrar, in charge. 1 Ed Tobias; manager of the Cen-
Anyone, interested in the Insti-Tex Livestock Commission of Gid-
I tute desiring further information - -
- is asked to contact Mr. Socha or dings. Tuesday announced plans to
first bale of 1961 cotton to the Ar- Rev. Max Studtmann of Immanuel j double the capacity of the auction
nold w Hannes Gin in Dime Box Lutheran Church, Giddings, barns on Farm Market Road 448,
, Tone mile south downtown Gid,
to be ginned Thursday morning, ‘ ---------. dings Tobias said the Commission
Aug 10 The bale was brought BOONE JACKSON ACCEPTS Company will build twenty new
there late Wednesday evening and MONAHAN’S COACHING JOB Apend, each with a capacity of fif-
ginned next morning. -=-— Boone Jackson was elected Bs-
* — The bale weighed 508 pounds and -sistant coach at Monahans. Tex.
was purchased by Frank Riske for Monahans High School is an AAA
40 cents per pound. - High School in, West Texas just
north of the present pens. This
will provide space for the smooth part of the country, , 2
' moncetae princgite tearesueterChim* MTME ‘olmh ante: * -5
n 1 East Avenue in Austin or by cal-
Tobias, a native of Ellinger, has John W. Macgorman of South ling GR 2-1229
been in the cattle business for Western Theological Seminary of
about sixteen years and during that which he heads the New Testament
time has made many outstate con department. Dr. Macgorman will ATTEND WORKSHOP
tacts which are beneficial to the be teaching the Bible during this Mrs. W. D. Moody and Miss Bess
local producers. He is an active meeting. | Black attended a workshop of the
The other principal speaker is
to 561 for August, Colonel Morris
S. Schwartz, state director of Se-
lective Service, announced.
The September quota for 1.112 is
the State’s share of a national quota
of 25,000 men for the Army.__
Tire September induction call is
the largest received by Texas
since January 1955, when the quota
was 1.249.
Colonel Schwartz also announced
that local boards would be direc-
ted to send 5,004 men for pre-in-
duction examination in Septem-
ber, compared to 3,655 for August.
Local board quotas , now being
compiled, are scheduled to be
mailed from state- Selective Ser-
vice headquarters by August 15,
Colonel Schwartz said.
The. September quota will be fil-
led with men who are at least 22
years old on September 1, with the
exception of volunteers, or delin-
quents uder the law, who may be
younger.
Monthly draft calls in 1961 ranged
from 292 down to zero prior to
August. Monthly examination quo
fas prior to August ranged from
one to 2,255.
S MISS FAY HATTOX
THE GIDDINGS STAR
Lee Courity's Favorite Newspaper — More News About More Lee County People Than Any Other Newspaper — Anywherer
president of the National Rural El-
ectric Cooperative Association.
Tom Reavicy. TEC. general
counsel and former Texas Secre-
tary of State, will deliver the key
note address, and State Senator
Henry B Gonzales of San Anton-
io will welcome the delegates.
Highlight of the program will be
the contest for "Miss Texas Rural
Electrification" for 1'962 Seven
candidates will be seeking the
title now held by Miss Carnetta
Burgett of Shallowater. Miss Bur-
gett will also first runner . up in
the national Miss Rural Eleetri-
fication contest in Dallas earler
this year. =======---==-=====
Contestants in this year’s contest
include Donna Beyer of Hereford,
"Miss Deaf Smith County Eleet-
ric;" Becky Reid of Spur, “Miss
Dickens County Electric;" Su-
zanne Darby of Roosevelt, "Miss
South Plains Electric," Nafi. Lynn
Smith of Colorado City, "Miss
Lone Wolf Electric;" Paula Dud
ey of Merkel, “Miss Taylor Elec-
tric,” and Martha Gail Bryant of
Hawkins , "Miss Wood County El
ectric.” — --.
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