The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1989 Page: 1 of 21
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PROJECT GROUNDBREAKING
EX TEN SI OX SEE VICE HONORED -
Vandalism Must be Stopped
Says Commissioners Court
Your News
HE SEALY NEWS
Serving the Citizens of Sealy and Austin County Since 1887
Thursday, May 11, 1989
ESCHENBURG
SEALY, Austin County, TEXAS 77474
102nd Year of Publication - Number 9
STEVENS
AN AWARD FOR CAMPOS
Light Voter Turnout
Stephen Wilson
Wins Two State
Literary Events
Leslie Eber, 83, Dies May 2
Leslie A. Eber, 83, a long time
the Bellville feed yard.
Carlos Hintz, Virgil Hill, Louis
Claude opened his first shop on Koym, Dean Kunze, I.. A. Lamp
and Bubba Krampitz.
Please see I 4Y. page J
RIBBON CUTTING FRIDAY
Boring Elected
Barbecue Set for
Sunday at Peters
WILSON
A.
Y
72
His first marriage was to Lillie
Dorris in 1920; she died in 1925.
They had one adopted daughter,
Leona Pearl. On June 7, 1942, he
married the former Miss Georgie
Habermacher in Houston and to-
gether they were partners in
business. Lay was a member of
STEVENS AND ESCHENBURG -
High Honor Sealy Graduates
CUTHWEST .C:OPULLI3HINO, INC.
2201 BROOKHOLLOW PLAZA DR.
SUITE 300
ARLINGTON, TX. 76006
IN BUSINESS HERE 67 YEARS —
Claude A. Lay Dies Sunday
Shown Saturday for
City, School Election
The graduating class of Sealy
High School of 109 seniors is led
by Tammy Stevens, valedictorian
and Val Eschenburg, salutator-
ian. They are top students of
twenty 1989 honor graduates, as
announced by Allen Harwell,
high school principal.
Tammy has an average of
97.7813; Val’s average is 97.2142.
Gina Patek, Gil Kracke and
Marlen Michalke rank third,
fourth and fifth in the class.
Others in the upper twenty per-
cent are Michael Berckenhoff,
Sara Bird, Laura Chateauvert,
two commissioner Hilbert Galle.
Precinct one commissioner
Curtis Hempel at this time has 75
signs and markers missing. This is
some cost considering each sign is
$28.50, not including posts and
labor to replace.
These acts of vandalism and
theft are “endangering lives,'
suggested the court. The public is
being asked to be on the lookout
for, and to report any such activ-
ity. The crime, depending on
extensiveness, is a misdemeanor
offense.
Commissioners Court signed a
resolution at Monday’s session
which honors 75 years of the
National Extension Service. The
United States Congress estab-
Jon Dalberg, Russell Dziadek,
Abby Fuller, Kim Hall, James
Kainer, Patricia Kasmiersky,
Malcolm McGee, Veronica Mac-
key, Andy Mersmann, Cathy
Reinbeck, Lance Smith and Vicki
Vincent, not necessarily in that
order.
The Rev. Merle Blado of the
First Baptist Church will be bac-
calaureate and commencement
speaker at the exercises scheduled
for 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 4,
at the Vernon Madden Gymna-
sium.
Please see related photo on page IK
Alderman, place two, Joe
Scranton, Jr. and alderman, place
four, Larry Koy, were re-elected
to their positions in Saturday’s
Stephen Wilson won two UIL
AAA state literary events on
Saturday, May 6 in Austin, and
thus became the first Sealy High
School student to win two state
academic events in the same year.
Stephen, a junior, placed first
in ready writing and second in
literary criticism. The ready
writing competition requires the
student to write an essay on a
topic not previously prepared for
in a two-hour time span. The
student must select one of two
subjects that range from current
events such as United States en-
vironmental policies to ethics in
the media. The literary criticism
competition tests the student’s
Kurt Thomas, Sammy and Ruby Millar and
Stella McCollum, Larry Kuciemba, Saaly Chambar
of Commarca prasidant. Carolyn Zapalac and Las
Ila Boyd, chambar executive diractor, laft to right
front row; and Jack Langford, Kevin Krampitz,
Russall Koym, Richard Goabal and Warran Rich-
ardson, back row, participatad in tha ribbon cut-
i Austin County Gun Club’s an-
t nual Mother’s Day barbecue will
• be held at the hall at Peters on
• Sunday and the public is invited.
An “eat all you want" dinner of
’ barbecued beef and pork with
• trimmings will be served from
ting Friday at Saaly Staak House Rev Thomas
gave tha dadicotory prayar and Rev Richardson
addressed tha gatharing of local paople with a
massaga of good wishas for succass to tha
ownars. Sammy Millar and Stalla McCollum. Faith
and patlanca ara tha combination for succass.
Richardson said _ Newt Photo
Claude A. Lay of Sealy died
Sunday, May 7, 1989 in the Bell-
ville General Hospital at the age
of 90 years, ending a 67-year busi-
ness career in Sealy. He was
owner and operator of C. A. Lay
Welding and Machine Shop.
Services were held Wednesday,
May 10, 1989 at 2:00 p.m. from
the chapel of the Etlinger Funeral
Home in Sealy with ministers
Leslie Page and Larry Briggs offi-
ciating. Entombment was in the
Haven of Rest Mausoleum in
Sealy.
Pallbearers were Dee Burns,
Allen Harwell, Roy Kaechele,
David Krampitz, H. E. (Bubba)
Krampitz, James Ramey and
Wayne Vincent.
Claude Alexander Lay was
born on December 16, 1898 in
Hamilton, Texas, son of Albert
and Grace Etta Love Lay. He
moved with his family to Sealy at
the age of four and attended the
Hartsville Public School.
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Live country western music will
be played throughout the day.
Krenek and the Texas Sounds will
provide music for a free dance
from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m.
An auction is slated for 1:30
p.m. offering a variety of items.
A volleyball tournament is
another part of the day’s activ-
ities. In addition, there will be
games and concessions for added
entertainment.
Leslie August Eber was born on
December 16, 1905 near Kenney,
son of Otto and Martha
Klopsteck Eber. He grew up in
the Kenney and Sealy areas,
attending school at Buckhorn and
Sealy Public School. On
November 4, 1927, he married the
former Miss Nettie Belle Bartay in
Brenham. Together they built and
owner and operated the Club
Rendezvous Restaurant in Sealy
for 30 years. He was a 47 year
member of St. John's Episcopal
Church in Sealy.
Eber also worked for Dow
Please see I III K, page 4
Mary Ellen Autin made presentation of an award from the Sealy
Optimist Club to Lieutenant Simon Campos of the Sealy Police
Department Thursday night Please see related story page 4 News Photo
San Felipe Mayor
Diana Boring was elected
mayor of San Felipe in Saturday’s
town election with 111 votes to 97
cast for Kenneth Currens asking
for reelection. One write-in vote
was counted. Voters cast 216
ballots in the mayorial and
aldermen’s election. Pat
Buechmann got one write-in vote.
Alfred Hall and Gerald Holder
were re-elected to council with 78
and 74 votes respectively. Bobby
Byars received 66 votes, William
R. Hildebrandt, 50, Clara Lister,
39, Diane Brewer, 31, Albert
Sliva, 25 and Jack L. Cook, 25 in
their bids for the two offices.
Boring will become the first
woman mayor of historic San
Felipe. She, Hall and Holder will
be sworn in Friday.
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ability to analyze various literary
The Rendezvous, built in 1937, selections and the student’s
became a gathering place for Please see WILSON, page iK
young people as well as older
folks, who enjoyed dancing, good
food and a pleasurable time. This
place is now the T&L Restaurant.
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the Sealy Church of Christ, being former businessman of Sealy,
instrumental in its founding and died Tuesday, May 2, 1989 in the
building of the church in 1936. Bellville General Hospital. His
Early services were held in his funeral was held Friday, May 5,
shop in 1935; he donated the 1989 at 2:00 p.m. from the
property where the church now Etlinger Funeral Chapel in Sealy
stands, with Rev. Jack Langford
He was also a 40-year member officiating, assisted by J. D. Sart-
of the Sealy Volunteer Fire welle, Jr. Interment was in the
Department. Sealy Cemetery.
C. A. Lay was very adept at Pallbearers were Leon Skeete,
designing and making items of Jean Ray Pavelka, Vernon R
metal and steel. He built the tank Bartay, Delmer Bartay, Lee Roy
for Sealy’s first fire truck. He set Bartay, and J. D. Sloane. Honor
up all the machinery and built the ary pallbearers were Tony
hoppers for several feed mills and Tsounakas, Truman Maddox,
city election. Frank McRae was
elected alderman place five.
Scranton received 194 votes,
Koy 193 and McRae, 166. Total
vote count was 221 votes, only
about one-ninth of the city’s
potential voting strength.
Numerous write-ins were
counted in each alderman’s race.
Hugh Anderson got five votes for
Scranton’s place two. One vote
each was cast for Dr. W. V.
Morris, Jack Langford, Earl
Frnka, Reggie Taylor, Paul
Herzog, and F. O. Tyler.
Larry Scranton, Bill Burtschell,
Bob Hamlin, Earl Frnka, Bob
Whitzel, Jimmie Walters, Billy
Koy and Ruby Miller each were
given one vote for Koy’s place
four position.
Hugh Anderson, E. K. Murray,
Marvin Svec, Jimmie Walters,
Joe Burttschell, Mark Nastoupil,
Doug Ivey, and Warren Richard-
son each accounted for two votes,
and Dave Ellerbe and Henry
Jurecek, for three votes each for
McRae’s place five. One vote was
cast for each, Larry Scranton,
Franklin Novicke, Robert Ham-
lin, John Hardy, David Kram-
pitz, Jack Langford, Earl Frnka.
City Council met at noon
Monday to canvas the votes.
Trustee Election
Voters in the Sealy Independent
School District trustee elections at
the four polling stations gave
Wayne Schomburg 209 votes in
Sealy, 14 in Cat Spring, 19 at
Please see II EC TION, page IK
Austin County commissioners
focused in on the issue of vanda-
lism — destruction and/or theft
of signs and markers from the
County’s roadways and bridges,
during the May 8 session of
Commissioners Court. The other
central item was recognition of
the National Extension Service’s
75th anniversary.
For some time, commissioners
in all four precincts have had
serious trouble with the disap-
pearance of railroad warning
signs, curve, yield and dead-end
signs, bridge load limits, speed
signs and road markers. Not only
are the signs missing, but in many
cases "the posts and everything
are disappearing” said precinct
Zapalac, Barbara LaGrasta, McDonald's co-ownar,
Jack Langford, Tony Tsounakas of T&L Restaurant,
holding shovel, David Adams of The Sonic, Shar-
ron Hamlin, Chris Schavrda, Ed Russell, assistant'
manager of McDonalds, James Hajovsky of Hajov-
sky's Exxon, R. L. Blaschke and Carl Feltner of CBS
Stone. Please see related story page 18. — News Photo
lished the Cooperative Extension
Service in 1914 with the passage
of the Smith-Lever Act “to help
farmers and ranchers, rural com-
munities and families with a
multitude of problems" The
Texas Legislature created the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service the following year.
Austin County agents planned
several activities in honor of the
occasion on May 8. Included were
an Omelette Rodeo and displays
in the courthouse lobby.
Court Shorts
Other action taking place dur- Groundbreaking and planting of the first pot of
ing May eighth’s light agenda crepe myrtles occurred at the south end project at
meeting was purchase of a copy Highway 36 and South Circle Drive Wednesday,
machine for the Extension Service May 3. Front row left to right are; Stacy Tsouna-
at a cost of $5,573 from Pitney kas, Jan Harrison, Russell Koym and Leslie Boyd.
Bowes which has the state Standing left to right are: Vivian Wittenburg,
Please see COURT, page 4 Wayne Schomburg, Barbara Konesheck, Carolyn
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