The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1963 Page: 1 of 20
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Giddings News
75th Year
Public Service
Lee Co., Texas
1888 — 1963
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Lee County's Leading Newspaper - First in News, Advertising, and Community Service - Since 1888
VOLUME 74
GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY. TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963
NUMBER 26
Rebuild Or Remodel Giddings High? School News
Roard Members Studying Problem D
4 In AA Review.
By Buddy Preuss, News Editor ! ]
.:i , . . TAX COLLECTOR HIRED
Giddings school board members are facing a problem and Roy Durrenberger has been
will in the near future have to make a decision. They must hired by the Giddings Indepen-
decide whether the present Giddings High School should be dent School District as school
Viewpoint
by B. P.
remodeled or a new building tax assessor-collector.
erected in its place. He replaces Elwood Sump,
For several months now, the who resigned in April.
Giddings High School Graduation
Exercises Friday Night At Gym
Members of the 1963 graduating class of Giddings High
School will receive their diplomas Friday night from Dr. Horace
R. Willard, president of the school board. It is also synonomous
to note that 63 seniors will graduate in the year ’63. Their mot-
1 to is "No man can rise above that at which he aims.”
The commencement program,-------— --
MATTER OF CLASS — Gra-
board members have studied
various aspects of the problem
with the professional guidance
of John Allen, an architect. And
many more months of thorough
which begins at 8 p. m. in the
gym, follows this order: Pro-!
cessional, "Pomp and Circum-
stance” by the high school band;
GIDDINGS - -
EQUALIZATION BOARD
The new Board of Equalizat-
ion for the Giddings school dis-
trict has been named by the
school board. The equalization
board will meet sometime in
July.
They are Ernest Kieschnick,
Swimming Pool
invocation, Rev. Troy Jarvis;
welcome address, salutatorian C.IM.t
Violetta Fisher; “First Swedish UPCHS oodrurudy
Rhapsody,” by the band; fare-
duating seniors at Giddings study will probably be necess-
High School are again wearing ary before a dec;sion can be
the traditional blue gowns, reached
If you are wondering if there The time is quickly approach-
are any other color gowns be- ing when the high school must George Fisher, Ervin Noack, ________.______________ ,
sides the traditional blue or either be remodeled or rebuilt. Martin Placke and Henry Dunk. Priniepal Robert L. Hudson; ac-
grey there is However, un- A A a
til last year most high School At the present time, it seems ONLY ONE AG TEACHER a
Fast year it high chool feasible that the old building Only one o been
students wore only blue or grey will be torn down and a new. Only one as teacher has been
caps and gowns.
necess-
well address, valedictorian
Clifford Bell; presentation of
Swimmers will have their
first opportunity Saturday to
awards; presentation of class.
ceptance of class, Supt. Don B.
“take a dip” in the Giddings
swimming pool on its opening
day June 1.
Families who plan to do a lot
But this Spring one cap and place
gown manufacturer. E R.
, rehired by Giddings High School „ _
modern structure put in its for the 1963-64 school year He H R
is Charles Young ‘ ior class: “March of Freedom,"
According to information re- Due to the foreseen decrease choir and band: benediction,
- so far by the advising in vocational agriculture en- concert choir; recessional with
architect, the actual cost dif- rallment in the new. cavanel the high school band playing
See GRADUATION. Page 20
Slocomb; presentation of diplo- ......
. . 1m of swimming this summer will
mas, school board president Dr.
Willard; alma mater, sen-
want to take advantage of sea-
| son tickets which will be offer-
ed for this first time this year.
The price for a season pass,
no matter what size the family,
is $30. Stockholders receive a
$5 discount and pay $25.
Ticket price’at the gate will
be the same as last year; 50
cents for adults and 25 cents
for children. Stockholders and
their families again receive a
discount and pay 40 cents and
Moone and Company, offered 32 leased
new color which range over at1
the entire color spectrum. And ference between the two alter- rollment in the next several
CIXCI. 2° Cadhich schools in the natives would not be enough to Ferrell VanrenikampMs ebeing
the new color for commence- likely consider remodeeling, es-transferred to the chemistry Fedor Man Killed
ment nd marched down the pecially since a remodeling pro-and science departments of the. ,
ment and marched down the gram would only be putting off high school. In Auto Accident
something which must eventu-
ally be done - at least in the NEW SCHOOL FURNITURE Elwood Brade 22, of Fedor
next 10 years, i School furniture totaling was killed instantly Saturday
For the citizens of the school $1 1.530 has been purchased for night when the car in which he - 1 1
district, either remodeling or the new Giddings elementary was riding ran off the Airline . ne P enecat 1 No c
rebuilding the high school will school. This includes the latest Highway 20 miles west of New West-at ... be onerreach day
mean the voting of a new bond most up-to-date student and Orleans, La.from 2 in/ithe arternoon until
William Woodburn of Ken- 9 at night
ner. La., another occupant of ‘ ‘ 5_____
the car, received arm and back
lacerations. They were on the Contractor Droemer
aisle in such exotic colors as
Aztec Copper and Royal Purple.
if you are a person who is
“set in your ways" and think
the change to other colors is
di gusting forget it This is
not the first time high school
students have made a change
in their wearing apparel for
commencement
issue Then the decision will be teacher desks and other neces-
with the people.
In 1911, many high school FREE DANCE SET
students voted to do away with AT AIRLINE HALL
Play-
sary furniture.
COACH MERRILL RESIGNS
Jack Merrill, assistant coach
at Giddings High School, has
resigned his position, effective
at the end of this school year.
TEACHER, COACH HIRED
Billy Zacharias, just gradu-
ated from Texas Lutheran Col-
the blue serge suits and sum- The Sunshine Melody
mer dresses, which were the boys, a newly-organized dance
traditional garb for graduation band, will play for its first
. at that time. —public appearance Friday night
at Airline Hall in Giddings.
They decided they wanted to The dance will be free and
wear a specially designed cap the public is
and gown of their own And All types of music, including Giddings, school district to teach
wear it they didin the rock and roll, western and high school mathematics and as
Spring of 1911 and foi many polkas will be played. See SCHOOL, page 5
Springs after, until its use be- ------------
way to a cafe where they were A t7c non
to pick up Woodburn’s wife. Gets $75,000 Contract
State trooper Alan Reggio Walter Droemer Construction
said Brade was thrown from the Company of Giddings, the low
car when it left the road after bidder in the construction of
going out of control, new buildings in a $1.4 million
The car smashed through a school expansion program at
cordially invited, lege, has been employed by the utility pole, interrupting elect- Nacogdoches, has been awarded
ric power in the St. Charles a $72,000 contract calling for
parish area. and smashed the remodeling of other build-
See BRADE, Page 5See CONSTRUCTION, page 20
came traditional.
So, once again in this year
of 1963, our young people have
begun to remake a tradition. .
They apparently decided that U. S. /7 Highway
Highway Projects Affecting Traffic Here
Youth and Spring are gay times
and caps and gowns should re-
flect that gaiety.
Even though the blue and
grey may be leaving graduating
ceremonies during the next few
years, one thing is surely re-
maining the inherited tra-
dition of young people (even as
far back as 19IT) to be willing
to try something new, if the
new seems better than the old.
Making Progress -
The U.S 77 project from Gid-
dings to the intersection of 21
and 77 at the blinker light is
progressing rapidly.
When completed, the high-
way will be two-lane for the
entire 10-mile stretch The ov-
The expense which the high-
way department is going to in
order to widen the overpass
also insures the town of Gid-
dings that U S. 77 will not by-
pass it for many years to come.
Giddings is indeed fortunate
to have two major U.S. high-
was intersecting in its down-
town section
U. S. Highway 290
Nearing Completion
The building of a new two-
lane highway from the east end
of the U.S. 290 bypass at Bren-
ham to the county line at the
Brazos River a
1’ miles — is in
stages.
distance of probably
the final
erpass coming into Giddings , , .
1 will also be widened for two- Patrolman Owens
lane traffic.
About 10 miles of the High-
way 290 East project (the Hou-
Being Transferred
REVEALING — If you want Lexington Riders
to know how to tell a man’s . . M,
nationality, Just watch mm ex Treking To Rockdale
Raymond Owens, a Texas
Highway Patrolman, has been
amine an automobile. „ _
* 1 : Large trail rides from Lex-
According to the organizers —1 \
of the International Auto Show ington and Cameron will parade . .... .
into Rockdale on Friday, June 312 years and he and his fami-
21 to participate in the Frontier ly lived in Giddings.
Days celebration. The local highway patrolman
The riders will be fed a bar- substation will be closed and
becue supper at Fair Park and no new patrolman will be as-
then dead the grand entry for signed here,
an evening of entertainment at ----—* *---•—
the Fair Park rodeo arena. SLOCOMB GETS CONTRACT
Camping facilities will be Don B. Slocomb, superin-
in New York, if a man feels the
upholstery first, he’s British. If
he looks at the engine first, he’s
German. If he first sounds the
horn, he’s Italian.
And if he starts arguing right
off about the price, he’s Ameri-
can.
GOOD
Another significant factor is
that Hempstead and Giddings
will be the only two sizeable
towns between the two large
cities which will not be by-
passed by U.S. 290.
I The major reason for this is
ston to Austin highway) is, -
finished. A portion of that dis-
tance will be put into use some-
because both towns
have wide streets which enable
heavy traffic" to pass through
without any difficulty or traffic
jams.
**
FEDOR PICNIC
time in the next week. THIS SHINDAY i
After the entire Hichway 200I
The Trinity Lutheran School
Lransferred—from the Giddings
are-i effective June 1 Nou ston-Austin project is com-
€, C UIUUUVE M 14*11 1+
Patrolman Owens has been
stationed here for the past
plefed the entire 160-mile dis- picnic, Fedor, is Sunday, June
tance will be two-lane highway, 2 on the Fedor picnic grounds:
-----Serving of the famous Fedor
EVERGREEN DOCTOR barbecue—beef mutton, pork-
TELLS TRUE STORY begins at 10:30 a. m.
Once again News editor Bud- The Ladies Aid will have a
dy Preuss writes a true story bake sale and the children will
about life on the wild frontier have their program at 2 p.m.
in the Giddings area. The story Fedor plays Blue Moon at
was related by John Knox and 3 p.m. in a softball game.
concerns a country doctor who The Vrazel Polka band of
was forced to deal with a Buckholts will play music dur-
%
How
provided at Fair Park and the te,ndent of the Giddings school
much pay does the head of the riders will be encouraged to district, was given a new throe-
stay overnight and take part in year contract at the last school
See TRAIL, page 5 board meeting.
SALARY —
bunch of outlaws.
Read this ing the day.
American Red Cross get?
Ser-VIEWPOINT, page 20
story on page 2 of this week’s
News. . — —
You arc heartily invited to
meet your friends at this picnic.
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