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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER
VOL. LVII.—NO. 28—58TH YEAR
SCHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY. TEXAS— FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953
PRICE 10 CENTS — ESTABLISHED 1893
FFA Boys Return From Houston Show With $11,000 In Awards
J !Seen and Heard
j (Hong $Ae
Street
V
There is a great deal of discus-
sion on the street and in school
circles about possible pay increas-
es for school teachers and it is
generally agreed that these peo-
ple who have to have a good edu-
cation, that costs thousands of
dollars, and who devote their time
day after day in fashioning the
pattern of live for our children,
are entitled to more money than
they are receiving. Too, it seems *
fhat they want better recognition
and want a better understanding
of what they are trying too do.
The question that is now facing
the Texas Legislature is how to
get more money with which to
pay teachers. Members of the
"body want to give the raise but
"how much and where it is to come
from" is the $64.00 question. The
Teachers lobby does not agree
With Governor Shivers plan and
there are other plans but just
what the outcome will be is far
from being determined at this
writing. Supt. Winkelman stated
Wednesday of this week that if
the Shivers plan was used, that
the Schulenburg Independent
School District would have to pay
about $5,000.00 more into the
State Fund than they are paying
at present if the teachers pay was
to be raised the amount the teach-
ers are asking. He went on to say
that Schulenburg could not afford
to pay this extra money.
Philippine Missionary
To Lecture Here
1,552 Less Voters
In Fayette Co.
According to final figures re-
leased from the office of County
Tax Assessor-Collector Gilbert H.
Eck, Fayette County will have
1,552 less voters in 1953.
The county's greatest voting
strength was in 1947, when 8,490
persons paid their poll tax. In
1948, 7,278 people paid their poll
tax, but the next year the num-
ber of eligible voters had dropped
to 6,476. Poll tax totaled 5,8?y> in
1950; 6,752-in 1952 and for the
coming year will be 5,200.
Rev. Arnold Strohschien, a mis-
sionary of the Lutheran Church,
Missouri Synod to the Philippine
Islands, will deliver a lecture at
Zion Lutheran Church this Thurs-
day evening, February 12; begin-
I ning at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Stroh-
schien is spending a year's fur-
lough in the States before going
back to the Philippines sometime
ir» November of this year.
The lecture will include the
showing of colored slide pictures
of the Philippine Islands. Also
■those present will have an oppor-
tunity to ask questions about the
Philippines and the work of the
Church there.
Rev. Widiger, pastor of Zicn
Lutheran Church, and Rev. Stroh-
echein were room mates at Con-
cordia Theological Seminary in
St. Louis, and the missionary is
a guest at the home of Rev. Widi-
er during his Texas tour, during
which he is speaking to congrega-
tions in Houston, San Antonio,
Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Cor-
pus Christi and various other
"smaller towns.
Rainfall Reported At
Near Half Inch
Weatherman Elmo Schaefer re-
ported late Wednesday afternoon
that total rainfall on Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week amounted
to .40 points.
The cool spell hit Schulenburg
just before daylight Wednesday
| morning but was not cold enough
j to do any damage to gardens or
{to blossoming fruit trees.
Frank C. Brosch
Interred At Praha
Wednesday
Funeral services for Frank C.
Brosch of Flatonia, were held
(from the family residence in
Flatonia on Wednesday, Feb-
ruary 11, at 9:00 a. m. with con-
tinued services at the Praha Ca-
tholic Church. Rev. Victor Raska
officiated at the service and Rev.
Julius Petru had the sermon. In-
terment was in the Praha Cath-
olic Cemetery.
Deceased was born the son of
Frank and Annie Brosch at Pra-
ha in June of 1900, and had
reached the age of 52 years. On
October 16, 1923, he was united
in marriage to Bertha Simcik at
Praha and had been engaged
in farming until about eight
years ago, when he took up the
.carpenter trade. He had been in
ill health for the past three
months and three weeks ago was
j taken to the John Sealy Hospital
| in Galveston where he passed
j away on Sunday, February 8,
| 1953, at 1:15 p. m.
j Mr. Brosch was a member of
| the Catholic Church, of the K.
J. T. Lodge and St. Isidor So-
ciety. One daughter, Helen, pre-
ceded him in death on July 4.
1929, at the age of two years and
seven months. His father, and one
brother, Emil, also preceded him
in death.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Bertha Brosch of Flatonia; Hi:; j
mother, Mrs. Annie Brosch of j
Praha; six sisters, Mrs. Joe (Em- j
ma) Rybak, Houston; Mrs. Frank
(Mary) Faltisek, Flatonia; Mrs.
Louis (Adella) Grieve, Flatonia;
Mrs. Jim (Laura) Tupa, Ganado;
Mrs. Charlie (Hattie) Pilat, and
Miss Millie Brosch, Praha; and
three brothers, Willie of Flatonia;
Fred and Henry of Praha.
40 Registrants
To Go For Army
PhysicalsMarchIO
List-jd below are the names of
forty registrants from Austin,
Colorado and Fayette Counties
who have been notified to report
for armed forces physical examin-
ations on March 10, 1953:
Fayette: Robert Eugene Beck-
ham, Star Rt., Ledbetter; Billie
Ken Brown, R3, Flatonia; Willie
Eugene Brown, Rl, La Grange;
John Ervin Ferguson, R3, La
Grange; Carl Walter Kasper,
Jr., Winchester; Martin Rudolph
Kasper, Winchester; Edwin Jos-
eph Mendel, R2, Schulenburg; El-
vis Mitchell, Flatonia; Charles
William Moore, Rl, La Grange;
Edwin Frank Reiss, Rl, West
Point; Victor Arnim Zoch, Win-
chester.
Austin: Charles Lawrence Abel,
Rl, Cat Springs; Cleo Edward
Beuchmann, New Ulm; Monroe
j James Ferguson, Bellville; Walter
Glucek, R2, Cat Springs; Ronald
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i
OPS Ceiling Prices
Being Removed Fastly
Ceiling prices on many commo-
dities have already been lifted and
it iteems likely that many more
will come off within the next few
days. It was stated that many
clothing items have already been
Temoved from the list and that
it was likely that by Friday that
the ceiling prices on milk and
milk products, eggs, poultry, soap,
lard, etc, would also be removed.
Also on the list for removal of
ceiling are rubber and rubber pro-
ducts, metals, shoes, papers pro-
ducts and many other bi-product:.
★ ★ ★
New Baptist Pastor
Arrives Here
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Rives and
j children arrived in Schulenburg
j this past week to make their fu-
j ture home. Rev. Rives is the new
| Baptist minister and the family
I will live in the same home in
j which Rev. and Mrs. Ernest May
j lived. They have four children.
Rotary Club Plans
Fund Raising
Supper Feb. 16
The Schulenburg Rotary Club,
in their efforts to raise funds with
which to purchase additional Jer-
sey heifer calves to be given to
boys worthy of the award, will
have a hot cake supper and also
a program at the Knights of Col-
umbus Home on Monday night.
February 16th.
The Rotary Club has already
given away several calves to mem-
bers of the FFA class and plans
on giving away a number of
others. A promise is- made by each
youth, who receives a calf, that
when the calf has grown into a
cow and has a heifer calf, that
this calf will be given back to the
Rotary Club to be given to some
other deserving youth. In this
manner, in a few years, quite a
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Oran Little Wins
$5,000 Marshall
Scholarship
Oran Little of Schulenburg was
awarded the $5,000 Marshall
Scholarship at the Friday night
performance of the Rodeo. This
is a state-wide award and can be
received by only one youth in
Texas. To be eligible for this
award, a boy must exhibit live-
stock at the Houston Fat Stock
Show, must be a senior in high
school, show outstanding leader-
ship in agriculture, and have a
good scholastic record. This schol-
arship must be used in studying
agriculture at the University of
Houston. Oran is at present Tex-
as FFA vice-president.
Oran. who has been participa-
ting in FFA work since his Fresh-
man year in Schulenburg High
School, has a very outstanding
r-\"*^rd in his FFA work. He is a
determined youngster and now
has a herd of three cows, three
dairy heifers and sells bottled
^ milk from his own cows. In his
! project he also has beef calves
every year, 100 laying hens, and
broilers. Last year Oran was
chosen the boy with the outstand-
ing program in the FFA Chapter,
and has had several champions at
local and surrounding shows,
j Als-> to help him win this award
was the appearance on several
major radio programs, and havincr
a scholastic record of straight A's.
except two B's in three and one-
half semesters of High School
work. Oran is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Little.
W. R. Keuper To
Attend District
Bankers Convention
Farmers Notice
Schulenburg Boys
Stationed At North
Fort Hood
It was announced this week
that Franklin E. Teichmann, son
-of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie E. Teich-
mann of Schulenburg, Route 4,
Erwin E. Mendel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie E. Mendel of Route 1,
and Charles Holub, Jr., son of
Charles Holub, also of route 4, are
all stationed at North Fort Hood.
The boys are stationed there with
the famous First Armored Divi-
sion under Major General Bruce
C. Clark.
Mrs. Chas. Baumgart.en, Jr.,
spent several days last week in
San Antonio visiting with Her "pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Houston,
and her sister, Mrs. Lew Bray and
daughters at Harlingen.
★ ★ ★
The Sticker Office has been in-
formed by what we believe reli-
able information, that a group of
men, with present headquarters
in Columbus are traveling through
this area selling electric applian-
ces and particularly electric
ranges.. It is stated they are ask-
ing higher prices by far than local
dealers who are selling nationa1-
ly advertised products and are
here to back up their products
sold.
It would be well for any people
in this area buying from other
people, whom they do not know, to
do some investigating on prices
and quality of merchandise be-
fore signing any contract or pav-
ing any deposit. Those of you who
have bought should be sure that
service parts are available, for
regardless of how good your
stove may be, sooner or later you
will have to have parts and even
adjustments made. You should buv
where you know people will back
up what they sell.
We were informed that a num-
ber of people in the Moravia sec-
tion bought some stainless steel
cooking sets that were priced
about three times as high for thp
same quality and brand that is
sold locally.
Again we urge you to be care-
ful of where you buy and what
you pay for.
Girls Basketball Team
To Play At Columbus
The Schulenburg girls basket-
ball team will go to Columbus on
this Thursday night, February 12
to play the Columbus team there.
If Schulenburg were to win this
game, it would mean that Schulen-
burg and Columbus would be tied
for first place and then the games
would have to be played off.
Shrine Dance To Be
Held Saturday
The annual Shrine Dance, whict.
will be held this week in Schulen-
burg at Wolters' Park, will bring
to a close the fund raising cam-
paign of the Colorado Valley
Shrine Club, according to Pre5;-
dent H. N. Schwartz.
Affairs were held in La Grange,
Eellville and Columbus and the
response was most grateful. Last
year the club raised $5300 for this
great hospital and its work.
Every dollar you give goes to
help make some crippled chihl
walk. The hospital is open to chil-
dren of all faiths, colors and
creed. All you have to do to be
able to enter is show inability to
pay for the treatments you need
and not be over fifteen years old.
The dance promises to be a big
success. Table reservations can be
made by calling 144. These are
extra to your other tickets for
the dance, which can be secured
i from any Shriner.
Former Local Man
Injured Fatally
Ernest Biersdorfer, age '28
years, died Sunday morning in the
Youens Hospital in Weimar of
injuries received Saturday night
when the 1950 Ford he was driv-
ing overturned about 11:00 o'clock
Saturday night on the Osage
F-M Road about two miles north-
east of Weimar. Mr. Beiersdorfer
was enroute to his home when the
accident occured. It is believed he
Went to sleep at the wheel.
The Biersdorfer family form-
erly resided in this area and are
well known here. He was a vete-
ran of World War II and als^
' served in Korea. At the time of
his death he was employed by the
Beken Truck Lines at Weimar.
Military funeral services were
j held at 3:00 p. m. Tuesday after-
! noon from the Hubbard Funeral
| Home in Weimar with interment
j in the St. Michael's Cemetery.
Surviving are his widow; his
mother, Mrs. Emma Biersdorfer of
this city; five brothers, Oswald of
La Grange; Herbert of Eagle
Lake; William of this city, Bonnie
of New Braunfels and Leslie of
Rosenberg; three sisters, Mis.
Otto Ladewig of La Grange, Mrs.
John Haverda of Shiner and Mrs.
Harry Lamascus of Smithville.
His father preceded him in death
several months ago.
Jackie Herzik Gets
$3,150 For Grand
Champion Lamb
Jackie Herzik's 94 pound South-
down lamb was placed as Grand
Champion in the largest lamb
show ever held at the Houston
Fat Stock Show. There were over
nine hundred entries. This lamb
sold for $3,150 to Leo Tarrant of
Houston and is the highest price
ever paid for a fat lamb.
Jackie also exhibited the Re-
serve Grand Champion pen of
three fat lambs. The other two
lambs sold for $1.10 per pound.
A freshman at A. and M. Col-
lege, Jackie has been winning
honors all over the country with
his sheep. He started out with
one fat lamb in his freshman year
of FFA work in the Schulenburg
High School, and this lamb won
the Grand Champion at the local
show.
The Southdown lamb, which won
such honors for Jackie, was pi^r-
chased from bhe University of
Kentucky, which is the top sheep
farm in Kentucky, last summer.
The lamb alone did not bring this
young man such honors, because
he really puts his heart into the
sheep raising business. He now
has his own flock of twenty
Southdown, sheep. Jackie is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Herzik
of this city.
W. R. Keuper, president of the
First National Bank of Schulen-
burg, and Chairman of District 3
of the Texas Bankers Association,
left Wednesday morning for Dai-
das, and from there will go- to
San Angelo, Waco, Temple, Aus-
tin and Houston to attend other
district conventions.
In the Austin meeting on next
Tuesday, Mr. Keuper is schedued
to make a short speech and give
general remarks of his office over
the past year before presenting
Governor Allan Shivers, who is
,to make the principal address.
Boy Scout Week
Being Observed
Boy Scout Week, February 7
to 13, marking the 43rd Anniver-
sary of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca is being observed throughout
the nation by more than 3,250,-
000 boys and adult leaders. Since
1910, more than 20,200,000 boys
and men have been members.
"Forward on Liberty's Team"
is the birthday theme and the em-
phasis is on "The Scout Family"
of programs of meeting the inter-
est of boys in three age groups:
Cub Scouting for boys 8, 9, and
10; Boy Scouting for boys those
11, 12, and 13, and Exploring for
boy3 14 and up.
The high point of Scouting in
1953 will be the third National
Jamboree. More than 50,000 Boy
Scouts will camp on a 3,000-acre
tent city on the Irvine Ranch in
the. Newport Harbor area in
Southern California next July 17
to 23.
Locally, the Scouts are joining
in with the rest of the nation.
Some of the Scouts attended a
District Meeting held in Yoakum
one night. They have been wear-
ing their uniforms during the
week and for the past two nights
have camped in the S. P. Park on
Main Street as well as participat-
ed in other programs, reminding
the people of this anniversary oc-
cassion.
Schulenburg FFA boys came
back with $11,000 in awards, prize
money and sales from the Hous-
ton Fat Stock Show. Two of the
highest honors of the Houston
Show were won by two of the
Schulenburg FFA boys. Jackie
Herzik exhibited the Grand Cham-
pion Fat Lamb, which sold for
33,150, to Leo Tarrant of Hous-
ton, and Oran Little won the
$•<,000 Marshall Scholarship to
the University of Houston.
Allen Ohnbeiser exhibited the
Champion Poland China Barrow.
His hogs also placed first in the
light weight pen of three fat hogs.
He also had a third place hog.
Others placing with hogs, which
were all Poland-Chinas, were:
Marvin Zemlicka, fourth and
f'fth; Milton Christ, fourth, fifth,
and tenth, Dannie Gansky, twelfth
and fourteenth; Delmar Deterling,
seventh, ninth and eleventh; and
Daniel Schindler, thirteenth.
Schulenburg Future Farmers
showed 16 Jerseys and brought
back eight blue ribbons, seven red
ribbons and one white. The ani-
mals are placed on a classification
basis and it takes a very good
animal to take blue. Exhibitors
of dairy animals were: Dannie
Gansky, two blues and one red;
Waldemar Huebner, two blues;
Leonard Berger, two blues; Louis
Little, one blue; Henry Huebner,
one blue, one red; Joe Brossmann,
one red; Earl Hertel, oife red;
Oran Little, one red; Erwin Kain-
er, one white; Erwin Pavlik, one
red.
Oran and Louis r Little placed
their Angus steers* 17th and 20th
in the Angus class. They sold for
52 cents a pound.
Coach Brown To Be
In Charge Of
Swimming Pool
Coach Hugh Brown of the lo-
cal High School, and Mrs. Brown
will be in charge of Schulenburg's
new Veteran's Swimming pool.
Opening date of the new pool has
been tentatively set for May 31.
Coach and Mrs. Brown will per-
sonally teach swimming and have
several assistants to help with the
running of the pool. .
Fayette Co. Near
Goal of $10,000
In Polio Drive
It is generally bad luck to
count on things you don't have,
but there is little doubt that the
Fayette Co. Polio Drive wall not
be over its $10,000 goal, according
to County Chairman H. N. Sch-
wartz.
With reports incomplete from
snearly all four areas, money re-
ceived to date is as follows:
Round Top-Carmine area $779.05;
Flatonia area, $860.04; LaGrange
area, $3,973.46, and Schulenburg
srea, $4,123.40, for a total of $9,-
735.95.
N AVID AD PHILOSOPHER
GIRL FOR NARENDORFS
. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Narendorf
of San Antonio are the proud pa-
rents of a nine pound, one and
one-fourth ounce baby girl, Delor-
es Ann, born to them Saturday,
February 7, at- 1:25 a. m. at the
Santa Rosa Hospital. This makes
one boy and two girls for the Na-
lendorfs. Mother and baby are
doing fine.
Has Impossible Idea On How The
Government Can Save
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Berger, and
Misses Leonida Berger and Har-
riet Kainer attended the Houston
| Fat Stock Show and Rodeo last
Saturday.
BOY FOR VRAN4S
M \ and Mrs. Florian Vrdna of
I Flat/ nia are the proud parents of
' a baby boy, born to them on Feb-
j ruarv 6, in the Youens Hospital in
i Weimar. He weighed nine pound®
j and has been given the name of
j Edwin James. He is being wel-
comed by a brother and sister.
Joe Kotrlik and James Rother-
j mel attended the Senate hearing
j on school legislation in Austin an
Monday night, February 9.
1
Editor's Note: The Navidad Phil-
osopher on his Johnson grass
farm on the East Navidad, has an
impossible idea this week, as
you'll readily agree when you read
his letter.
Dear editar:
There was sort -of a touch of
spring out here the other after-
noon, a bright •
sun was shinin,
the air was still,
and peaceful,
heard a few
b i r ds cuttin
loose, calves
were racin each
other over the
pasture, my bony cows were war-
min their hides in the sun, and I
Money
was out ■ wanderin aimlessly
around speculatin on whether 8
bales of hay would get my cows
through the rest of the cold spells
this year, when I stumbled on a
copy of a newspaper and since a
man can speculate as well sittin.
down as walkin around I sat down
and looked it-over.
The first article I noticed raised
my blood pressure. Accordin to it,
the government is buildin a com-
plete city out in the Navada de-
sert. It's gonna be complete from
paved streets to tall buildings,
finished, they're gonna drop an
atom bomb on it and study the
houses, stores, water system, elec-
tricity, gas, efc. When they get it
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