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THE SEALY NEWS
VOLUME 58—NUMBER 31
SEALY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1946
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Local Lions Expect
300 for Banquet
FYR-FYTERS MEETING
HELD WEDNESDAY
P.T.A. Drive By
First 6 Grades To
End October 17
WALLIS AND SEALY
BANKS SHOW GAIN
IN RESOURCES
2:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
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Mr. and Mrs. John I. Matejka
and Jackie and Nell have moved
to their new home in Houston.
Tuesday-Wed. Oct. 15-16
“CINDERELLA
JONES”
with Joan Leslie,
Robert Alda
Santa Fe Names
Future Farmer
Winners Over State
Saturday Mat
Sunday Mat
Nite Show —
SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS
AND BUS INSPECTION HELD
The Austin county school bus
drivers institute and bus inspect-
ion was held at Bellville Thurs-
day, Sept. 26. Drivers received
training in First Aid, Safety, the
handling of pupils, and laws and
regulations pertaining to school
transportation.
Buses were inspected by high-
way patrolmen, representing the
Department of Public Safety.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Burger
and Louis Burger of Houston
spent Sunday with their parents
here.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.— (Soundphoto) — Aerial photo of Niagara Falls showing heavy mass
of broken rock at foot of falls after a huge section of the brink of the American side of the falls collapsed.
during the hours of two until
the tilt is over.
Wallis Schedule
Schedule for the Wallis Steers
for the 1946 football season.
Oct. 11 East Bernard at Wallis.
Oct. 18 Orchard at Orchard.
Oct. 25 Hungerford at Hunger-
ford
Nov. 1 Beasley at Beasley.
Nov. 8 Orchard at Wallis.
Nov. 15 Wallis at East Bernard.
Nov. 22—Open.
First In News
of Sealy
And Austin County
Where Railroads
and
Highways Cross
balance of $5,459.85 in the reg-
ular fund, and $17.59 in the spec-
ial fund. Ed went right on to
clip those present for $1 to $2.75
each to pay for the firemen’s
entertainment of the Wallis and
Bellville boys.
Firemen’s ears stood straight
up as the chief went on to tell
of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Parcus’
offer to provide a calf which will
dress around 175 pounds for a
family barbecue. Sealy’s fire-
men may not be so hot in pre-
cision fire drills, but they are
top-notch performers in the
knife and fork league, promptly
setting Sunday, October 20th as
the date for the family affair at
Firemen’s Park, to begin at one
o’clock.
Entertainment will be mapped
out, with complete plans being
announced next week.
Rev. V. A. Raska of Flatonia
was a brief visitor in the Joe
Fietsam home here Wednesday.
TEXAS THEATRE
RCA Photophone
New Starting Time
MASONIC CALLED MEETING
A called meeting of San Felipe
Lodge No. 239, Sealy, will be
held this (Thursday) evening,
Oct. 10th, at 7:30 o’clock. Work
in the 3rd degree, followed by
refreshments.
All members urged to attend.
Visiting members welcomed.
Thursday-Friday, Oct. 10-11
“THE SPIRAL
STAIRCASE”
with George Brent,
Dorothy McGuire
Bids on Wharton,
Eagle Lake Road
Tentatively Set
State highway department has
notified the Wharton county
commissioners court that if right
of way for the proposed highway
from Eagle Lake to Wharton is
secured by Oct. 25, bids for the
project will be received at the
department meeting in Decem-
ber, County Judge Thomas H.
Abel of Wharton County has an-
nounced.
Route of the present highway
will be followed from Eagle
Lake through Bonus and Egypt.
At Glen Flora some houses will
have to be moved and about a
mile west of Wharton the road
will be moved to the north side
of the Santa Fe railroad tracks
until it intersects Ogden street in
Wharton which it follows on to
Highway 59.
Twelve members of the local
Chamber of Commerce board of
directors met Monday night at
the school house in regular meet-
ing for October.
Oscar Schier, president, presid-
ed, with Herman Beyer attend-
ing to secretarial duties. Two
new members, The Rose Shop,
and C. A. Mewis of the Sealy
Auction Barn, have added their
names to the chamber roll.
Most of the evening was spent
in discussing the possibility of
getting a farm-to-market high-
way okeyed by the Highway
Commission from New Ulm
through Cat Spring to Sealy,
of asphalt construction, with the
hope of getting at least a grav-
eled feeder road to the Millheim
section. A. H. McMillan headed
the group from Cat Spring, in-
cluding H. A. Strauss, Ernest
Brune, within the next two
weeks, to further plans looking
forward to an eventual appro-
giving rural customers a double-
circuit, which greatly improves
the service, and chamber offi-
cials are elated over the success
attained. The probability of the
Santa Fe railroad widening Main
Street crossing between the post
office and Sealy Grist Mill de-
pends on when the many switch-
es may be moved.
Those present included: Julius
Brune, S. P. Preisler, Luke Hill,
Herman Beyer, R. A. Engelking,
Jr., Melvin Preibisch, Frank
Krampitz, Jr., R. W. Brau, Louis
Zapalac, Dr. Frank Vykoukal,
Oscar Schier, Dee Brune, and
Clarence Schier. They voted to
change meeting time from eight
to 7:30 the first Monday of each
month at the school building.
Cotton future prices are cur-
rently far higher than those that
prevailed in other years of short
crops.
After the agriculture depart-
ment Tuesday estimated the 1946
cotton crop would be the second
smallest in 50 years, October 1946
deliveries climbed as high as
39.28 cents a pound on the New
York exchange.
In the 1920-21 season, only
year since 1896 when the crop
was lower than that estimated
for this year, the highest price
for future on the exchange was
34.50 cents a pound. Back in the
1895-96 season the high quota-
tion was only 9.66 cents a pound.
BAND CONCERT
IS KICK-OFF TODAY
AT AUSTIN CO. FAIR
The Austin County Fair open-
ed with a band concert on the
Bellville city square by the Bell-
ville Chamber of Commerce band
at nine o’clock this (Thursday
morning), with concert music
continuing at the fair grounds
after the one hour session in
town.
Tonight’s activities consist of a
rodeo sponsored by the Austin
County rodeo association at 7:15
at the park rodeo arena. Happy
Cousins orchestra will furnish
music tonight for the first of the
two fair dances. The other dance
is scheduled for Saturday night,
featuring music by a top-flight
modern orchestra.
The Hammond Play-Park Car-
nival with concessions and thrill
rides will be a big thing for
youngsters, particularly, and old-
er people too, will enjoy it
throughout the three-day fair.
Tomorrow, Friday, is school
day.
Bellville stores will be closed
this afternoon and again tomor-
row afternoon.
Legion Completes
Plans For Big
November Event
Local Legionnaires will meet
tonight, Thursday, at the Legion
meeting hall above Bender’s
Supply to complete plans for
the November 10th American
Legion celebration at Firemen’s
Park here. A big and interest-
ing affair is planned for that
day, promising fun and enjoy-
ment for young and old.
Ticket sales are increasing re-
gularly, and citizens are asked
to support the boys in their
purpose of building a Legion
home.
This Armistice Day observance
will be an afternoon affair, with
Lee Prause and his orchestra
furnishing dance music at night.
Keep the date in mind and at-
tend. In the meantime purchase
your tickets and boost the fel-
lows along.
Tigers to Entertain
Cypress'Fairbanks
‘Cats’ Friday Flight
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Zapalac
and Hugo Brast spent Sunday in
Houston attending Ringling
Brothers circus.
Sealy’s Fyr-Fyters now are
covered with accident insurance,
taking out a policy on all of
the thirty members in a group
affair for $3,000 each for acci-
dent and hospitalization, for a
three-year period.
Twenty-four members present
voted unanimously on the appli-
cation of Raymond Hradil as a
new member of the organization.
Chief Nowak reported on two
dances since the last regular
monthly meeting, one on Satur-
day, September 21st, which show-
ed a net profit of $357.15, and
the other of Sunday, October 6,
netting the fire department’s
treasury $290.84, both showing
slight increases over the two
dances at the same time last
year, although some thought the
crowds were falling off.
Treasurer Luedecke reported a
• Plans now are under way by
members of the Sealy Lions’
Club, with Luke Hill as chair-
man of Zone 2, to entertain an
estimated two to three hundred
Lions, their wives or guests, at
a banquet affair to be held here
Further plans for the
event will be discussed.
James K. Gray of Sealy, was
slightly injured in a car and
cattle truck accident Saturday
night, nine miles north of
Jacksboro, in which one person,
Frank Baucum 18, of Coleman,
was killed instantly. The oc-
cupants of the car were all
students of John Tarleton Ag-
ricultural college at Stephen-
ville.
Dan Cupid
Averages Nearly
A Hit A Day
Twenty-six couples made ap-
plications for marriage licenses
from September 3rd to October
7th, according to records in the
office of the county clerk, Law-
rence Dittert, in Bellville. Nine-
teen couples of this total were
white people, and seven were
negro.
Licenses were issued to Ed-
mund R. Rudloff and Miss Mary
Frances Fewell; Riley Ashorn,
Miss Elsie Muenzler; Henry A.
Papke, Miss Dolores Mae New-
som; Eugene Barry, Miss Virgin-
ia Dare Eastman; David O.
Cleveland, Miss Una Mae Geist-
man; Eddie A. Blezinger, Miss
Earline Luedeker; Eugene Hintz,
Miss Henrietta Tillie Kovasovic;
Charlie P. Machala, Mrs. Jose-
phine Jankowske; James Karl
Boardman, Miss Elaine Helen
Klein; Roddy R. Butler, Miss
Katie Jean Wilkins; Billy B.
Seber, Miss Shirley Rose Clark;
Arthur Perkins, Miss Angeline
Miller; James F. Lanik, Miss
Minnie Helen Schoppe; Law-
rence F. Kujawa, Miss Alvina
Koteras; O. W. Kell, Miss Ger-
trude Dorman; Arnold Real, Miss
Loma McMurrey; Louis Frank
Machala, Miss Lillie Annie Svo-
boda; George B. Golluick, Miss
Maude A. Kenter; Leroy W. Mi-
chaelis, Miss’ Marguerite E. Se-
lesky.
Colored: James C. Routt, Juan-
ita Simmions; Andrew J. Wynn,
Mollie Mae Johnson; Ralph Lil-
ly, Helen Marie Johnson; James
Ammons, Bernice Harris; Illi-
nois Felder, Jr., Ellen Harris; J.
D. Gonzales, Bernice Andrews;
Andrew C. Campbell, Willie V.
Curry.
Richard Witte
Buried Here
Saturday P.M.
Funeral services for Richard
Witte, who died in Galveston
October 4, were held at the
Preibisch Funeral Home at 3:30
p.m., Saturday, with interment
in the Sealy Cemetery.
Mr. Witte was born here
March 20, 1894, and had reached
the age of 52 years, 6 months and
14 days.
A number of brothers and sis-
ters survive him.
SEALY BOY SCOUTS MEET
TUESDAY NIGHT
Several scouts were present
for the regular meeting, which
was held in the basement of the
local Methodist church, last
Tuesday night. Tests were pas-
sed and Merit Badge require-
ments were reviewed and ap-
proved.
All former Scouts of this
troop are requested to be pre-
sent at meetings on ' Tuesday
nights, which are held every
week at 7:15 p.m. at present. New
members are needed to help put
Scouting over in this communi-
The selection of winners of the
Future Farmers of America Edu-
cational awards offered annually
by the Santa Fe Railway as an
aid to farm development was an-
nounced today by R. L. Barron,
state supervisor of vocational
education for Texas.
Those receiving the awards
are: G. H. Harfst, Jr., Keesey
Kimball, Joe T. Lane, students
and E. E. Turner, vocational
leader, Alpine; W. A. Messer, Jr.,
Belton; Charles Fehler, Jr., Clif-
ton; Raymond McNutt, Coleman;
Jean Easley, Jasper; Bert Gibbs,
Justin; Alton Brazell and Clar-
ence Oswalt, Lubbock; Doyle
Curry, Ropesville; Dwane Jones,
Spring Lake; Charles Upton,
Tokio; and James Hancock, Timp-
son, Texas.
The awards, provided each
year by the Santa Fe through
Fred G. Gurley, president, per-
mit an all-expense paid attend-
ance at the annual F. F. A. con-
gress to be held in Kansas City,
October 21 through 24. It also
permits the delegates to attend
the Royal American Livestock
Show, held that week.
Statements of resources of the
Citizens State Bank of Sealy and
the Wallis State Bank at Wallis
show a gain of $27,356.51 and
$16,306.58, respectively.
The bank’s official statement
of financial condition of the
banks show this gain at the close
of business on September 30, in
comparison to the report the lat-
ter part of June of this year.
Sealy banks resources total
$2,499,885.65 this fall compared
with $2,472,529.14 in June, and
Wallis resources amount to $1,-
103,666.78, with the June state-
ment showing $1,087,360.20.
Tax Collector
To Be In Sealy
October 19
C. Strauss, of Bellville, assess-
or-collector of taxes in Austin
county, will be here at the office
of the Justice of the Peace Sat-
urday, October 19, for the pur-
pose of collecting taxes for the
year 1946. The hours will be
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Local taxpayers are being no-
tified that no poll tax receipts
for the year 1946 will be issued
after January 31, 1947.
On Saturday, October 5, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mr. Strauss will
be at the Justice of the Peace
office in Wallis; Tuesday, Oct-
ober 8, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the hotel in Cat Spring;
Thursday, October 17, from 9
a.m. to 12 noon at the J. H.
Craig store at San Felipe; and
Friday, October 18, from 9 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at the Mike Belu-
nek store at Frydek.
Thursday, November 21st, at
7:30 p.m.
Zone 2 of District 2-S-3 con-
sist of the Bellville, Smith-
ville, Brenham, Hempstead and
Sealy Lions Clubs, but guests
will attend from Eagle Lake and
Columbus also.
Club Rendezvous will be the
scene of the banquet, no doubt
to be one of the largest ever
held in Austin County.
The evening’s speakers include
Lions International Director H.
C. Petry, Jr., of Carrizo Springs,
Texas, well known throughout
the U. S., and just recently com-
pleting a speaking tour of Can-
ada. Other addresses will come
from District Governor A. R.
Ezell and District Secretary. Geo.
Byers, both of Johnson City;
Lions State Secretary, Marlowe
Fisher, of Austin, and Judge
Richard Spinn, County Judge of
Washington County, Deputy Dis-
trict Governor.
The local Lions Club consists
of thirty-three members. They
are reminded that the first reg-
ular meeting for October will be
held next Monday night, October
14, at the Sealy Hotel, beginning
at seven o’clock.
Dittmar, J. E. Schaffner, Herman
Goebel and Hugo Suhr.
They will meet with a com-
mittee here, to be headed by Dee
priation from the state for this
much needed road to New Ulm
from Sealy.
S. P. Preisler, speaking for the
retail merchants committee, re-
ported the boys getting along
harmoniously, while Clarence
Schier reported $1,000 in regular
fund and $100 in the street light-
ing account, as his treasurer’s
report.
Members were unanimous in
favoring a $15 donation to the
4-H Club Girls of Austin Coun-
ty, to be used as prize money
awards by Mrs. Louise Harper,
County Home Demonstration
Agent.
Telephones lines now are
under construction around Sealy
fense. According to reports, the
visitors have a well-rounded
team that knows how to handle
the pighide, and are rated as
strong contenders for title
honors.
Tickets for Friday night’s
game are available at Sealy
Confectionery, Cook’s Con-
fectionery, Joe’s Cafe and
Cattleman’s Cafe. Sealy fans
will help all others by get-
ting their tickets before
going out to the stadium.
This is the first year for
Cypress-Fairbanks in Class B
company,- having been an A
school until the present. The
Harris countians have thus had
the benefits of faster competit-
ion previously.
Two rival teams will clash
Friday afternoon, when the East
Bernard Brahmas visit the Wal-
lis Steers on the Wallis football
field at the American Legion
hall. Starting time of the game
is 2:15 p.m.
Coach Charlie Klecka is run-
ning his team through its final
paces in preparation for this
contest. Wallis people are back-
ing their team with interest,
particularly in this game, and
will close their business houses
New Cleaners
Open Shop Here
On Main This Week
Located in the Buechmann
building across from Levine
Bros, on Main, the Zaskoda
brothers, Harvel and Jerry, are
this week announcing the open-
ing of their new dry cleaning
and pressing shop. They were
open for business on Wednesday
morning.
Both boys are veterans of
World War IL, serving with the
navy in the Pacific. They at-
tended school under the G. I.
Bill of Rights in Fort Worth,
where they studied the dry
cleaning business.
UNDERWOOD
RANCH AUCTION
AT BARN OCT. 16 .
One hundred thirty-five head
of registered Herefords with
papers complete, will be placed
on the block at the Sealy Live-
stock Auction Ring, Wednesday,
October 16, at 9:00 a.m., before
the regular auction, it was an-
nounced this week by Milton
R. Underwood, owner of the
U4 Ranch.
Mr. Underwood, who purchas-
ed the Haynes Ranch on the
Sealy-Cat Springs Road in 1939,
has specialized in breeding Do-
mino, Stanway, and Double-
Domino as well as other fam-
ous blood lines. Since 1939, Mr.
Underwood has greatly improv-
ed the quality of U4 calves
through the acquisition of high
grade breeding stock.
All the stock to be auctioned
are of outstanding lines and
have been bred, Mr. Underwood
said.
In addition to cows 2 to 3
years old, heifers and bulls as
well as calves dropped this year
will be included in the auction.
The event is expected to attract
cattle buyers from Houston and
the Southeast Texas area.
40-CENT COTTON
SEEN ON BASIS OF
8,724,000 BALES
A 1946 cotton crop of only 8,-
724,000 bales—the smallest since
1896 with the exception of 1921
—was forecast by the agriculture
department Tuesday.
This represents a decline of
477,000, or 4.9 per cent, from the
department’s Sept. 1 forecast.
Production last year was 9,015,-
000 and the 1935-44 average was
12,553,000.
Unfavorable weather was
To Get Discharge
Pfc. Walter Schneider has re-
turned from 25 months army ser-
vice, and expects a discharge
next month. The son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Schneider, he was in
the Philippines for many months.
largely responsible for this year’s
reduced crop and for the decline
in prospects during the past
month.
The indicated crop is insuffi-
cient to meet domestic and ex-
port demands for the current
season, but reserves from prev-
ious years are available to offset
the production deficit.
These reserves, which reached
a record peak during the 1930’s,
declined during the war years as
many growers diverted to food
crops. They are expected to drop
to the lowest level since 1929 by
harvest time in 1947.
The department said the per
acre yield was indicated at 235.6
pounds, the smallest since 1941.
The yield was 251 pounds last
year and 243.2 for the 10-year
average.
Condition of the crop on Oct.
1 was reported at 63 per cent of
normal compared with 70 per
cent a year ago and 71 per cent
for the 10-year Oct. 1 average.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that
1,718 bales of cotton were ginned
in Austin county, Texas from
the crop of 1946 prior to Sept.
16, as compared with 5,570 bales
for the crop of 1945.
Robert H. Blum
The grade bringing in
most new members will
awarded a prize, as will
The Sealy Parent-Teachers
association is requesting and
urging all parents and every-
one interested in their school,
to join the organization.
The members will meet at
the school building at 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 17, at which
time the contest and member-
ship drive by the first six grades
will be concluded.
Saturday, October 12
“FIGHTING
GRINGO”
with George O’Brien
Sunday-Monday, Oct. 13-14
“THE GREEN
YEARS”
with Charles Coburn,
Tom Drake
Thursday-Friday, Oct. 17-18
“DO YOU LOVE ME”
(in technicolor)
with Maureen O’Hara,
Dick Haynes
COMING SOON ...
“THE BELLS OF
ST. MARY’S”
with Bing Crosby,
Ingrid Bergmann ; ;
CHARLES GRAY
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Charles Gray, brother
Alois Hrdlicka, Sr.
Buried In
Wallis Sunday
Funeral services for Alois
Hrdlicka, Sr., who died in Hous-
ton, Saturday, October 5, were
held at the Knesek Funeral
Home in Wallis, followed by
services in the Guardian Angel
Church, Sunday afternoon at
three o’clock. Burial was in the
Guardian Angel cemetery, Rev.
Al. Nesvadba of Wallis, and
Rev. James Kveton of Sealy,
officiated, with Knesek Funeral
Home directing.
Pall bearers were Archie,
Frank, Frank, Jr., and John
/ Jemela, John Owczarczak and
Alois Hrdlicka, Jr.
Mr. Hrdlicka had reached the
age of 82 years, 5 months, and
20 days. His wife preceded him
in death 21 years ago.
Survivors include six sons,
Charlie and Ignace of Alberta,
Canada, George of Rice Lake,
Wisconsin, Joseph of Sealy, Wil-
liam of Houston, and Peter of
Adrian, Michigan; one daughter,
Mrs. Lawrence Frey of Port-
land, Oregon; 17 grandchildren,
and 3 great-grandchildren.
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE YA= COUNT,,”
By Everett Kersten
Tomorrow night Coach W. B.
Hinton’s Sealy Tigers will take
on the potent Bobcats of Cyp-
ress-Fairbanks, in an attempt to
stay tied for the lead of Dis-
trict 26-B. The Sealyites swamp-
ed Katy 40-0 in their only con-
ference start, while the Bobcats
remain untested in district play.
However, Cypress tied Alvin 0-0
in an early test. They are
known to have a terrific passing
attack, as well as a stout de-
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