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VOLUME 81, no: 39
WEST, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951
53.50 PER YEAR
Trojans Play Itasca in
Final Game Tonight
New Funeral Home
Established Here
^vConnally Funeral Home an-
YioUnccd the opening of a new
funeral home here this week.
, The announcement was made by
W. Gillls, resident manager,
who moved to West with his
family on Tuesday.
The new firm will be located
In the Samjstrla building on
Main Street, and will offer a
complete funeral service, am-
bulance service and funeral In-
surance.
Mr. Gillls has been an under-
taker and funeral director for
some twenty years. He was for-
merly connected with Connally
funeral Home in Waco prior to
t l^orld War II. Since the war
he has operated a Funeral Home
In Louisiana. His wife and three
children, one cf school age, ac-
companied him to West this
week to make their future home.
Workmen are now busy con-
verting the Smajstrla building
into a Funeral Home complete
with office, chapel, display
room, etc.
Tanks Move to the Rescue of Trapped G.I.’s
William Zahn
JBies at Mexia
William Zahn, 48, passed away
early Thursday morning, B'eb.
1, at his home in Mexia. Death
•was attributed to a heart attack.
Mr. Zahn was born near West
on May 0, 1002, and lived in this
community for 45 years.
Funeral services were held at
, 2 p. m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at
Adephold’s Chapel and at 2:30
p. m. at St. Peter’s Evangelical
and Reform Church, Rev. Paul
Mohr officiating. Burial was in
t Closner Cemetery.
Survivers are three sisters,
Mrs. Aug. Groppe of West, Mrs.
W. F. Wedeking of Waco, and
*Mrs. W. E. Barton of Galveston.
J Pallbearers were six nephews.
Weinhardt Wedeking, M/Sgt.
Wilfred Wedeking, John Rcichle,
Leo Robins, Herbert Groppe,
(and Oliver Groppe.
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STATION WAGON—AUTO
IN COLLISION SATURDAY
The 1950 West high school
station wagon and a 1950 Ford(
driven by the owner, Ernest
Koudelka, collided at the inter-j
section of Spruce and Davis
Streets at about noon Saturday.
The station wag-on was driven
by C. B. Bunnell, grammar
school principal and coach, who
was returning members of the
Junior High basketball team to
their hemes following a game
played in Waco.
Koudelka’s car was badly
damaged In the collision and
. the station wagon was damaged
'\oightly. No one was injured in
the accident.
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! Greet the "March of Dime”
,. workers Saturday with a gen-
■*crous contribution!
The West High Trojans will
play the Itasca Wampus Cats a
district basketball game here
tonight (Friday.) This game
was scheduled for last Friday
night but was called off be-
cause of bad weather.
Itasca won a game from West
early In the season and West
has won two games from the
Wampus Cats. Ail the games
played by these two teams have
been very close, so the game of
tonight is strictly a toss-up,
West being slightly favored due
to the heme advantage.
Itasca defeated La Vega In a
district game this season, which
was something the Trojans ^
couldn't do. However West won
over Mart—something Itasca
couldn’t do.
The West B team will play
the Itasca B squad at 7 o’clock
and the Trojans will play the
Wanipus Cats at 8 o’clock.
$640,000 School
Bond Vote Due
In LaVega Dist
La Vega Independent School
District leaders Tuesday night
sounded a call for an extension
$640,000 building program to
relieve badly crowded conditions
in the white and Negro schools.
Representatives of the dis-
trict will secure a petition ask-
ing the beard to call a bond
election to finance the program.
Included in the proposed
building program will be a new
elementary school, a new Negro
school, home economics cottage
and alterations to the present
buildings. Financing the pro-
gram will call for a maximum
tax rate of $1.50 on the $100
valuation, the rate to be levied
by the board. The maximum
rate would increase the school
tax 50 cents per $100 valuation.
Youngsters presently are
flooding all La Vega Schools, P.
N. Hallmark, vice president of
the board, told the representa-
tives of the leading organiza-
tions at the meeting Tuesday.
At the close of the war 839
youngsters were enrolled in the
white elementary schools alone,
and 275 were enrolled in the
high school. Now the elementary
schools have 1134 enrolled, with
340 enrolled in the high school.
The growth has moved rapidly
forward year by year and shows
every indication of continuing
at the same rate, according to
school census figures.
BOIIANNAN SERVING ON
DESTROYER USS McKEAN
William R. Bohannan, seaman,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross
Bohannan of West, is serving
aboard the destroyer USS Mc-
Kean in the Far East.
The McKean participated with
carriers in air strikes from the
Yellow Sea, cleared mined areas
and took part in the invasion of
Inchon. Her main duties with
Task Force 77 arc screening and
plane guarding
THE ROAD TO SAFETY for G.I.’s of the Second Division is blocked during the Korean withdrawal.
Moving to the rescue are tanks and Tommies of the British Middlesex Regiment (pictured above).
With air and artillery support, the Tommies broke the block and the G.I.’s streamed through, but their
casualties were not slight. To their losses the Tommies had to add casualties of the previous day when
they had unsuccessfully attempted to break the block without the aid of tanks, artillery and airplanes.
New Hope for Hearts
Drive Now Underway
Sinclair Farm
Show Due Here
February 20th
The annual Sinclair Farm
Shew will be presented here at
the high school gymnasium on
Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 8 p. m.
Tho big free show this year
features a new, amusing farm
movie, "Rainmaker,” and a New
England Holiday Travelogue.
Prizes are to be awarded, and
the West High School Band will
present a concert.
In addition to the Iree enter-
tainment. the Sinclair Company
will contribute 10c to the band
uniform fund for every person
attending the show. Everyone is
invited to attend the entertain-
ment . . . enjoy the evening
State College at Denton, Texas, i anc| a[ same time boost the
Mrs. Kabella is spending a few band uniform fund.
days in Fort Worth with her | -t,--
daughter, Mrs. McDonald, and
attended the Fat Stock Show!
and Kodco.
COWGIRL SWEETHEART —
Miss Pat McDonald, grand-
daughter of Mrs. F. W. Kabella,
was chosen Cowgirl Sweetheart
of the Fort Worth Lions Club
at the Southwestern Exposition
and Fat Stock Show. She ap-
peared on Lions Day, Tuesday,
January 30. Miss McDonald is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilfred R. McDonald of 805
Woodland, Fort Worth, Texas,
and a student at North Texas
W. E. Clark Dies
In San Antonio
Mrs. Gajdusek
Buried Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Gajdusek, 88, were held at the
I home of her son, Joe Gajdusek
, , „„ I in West Tuesday at 9 a. m. and
Friends and relatives of W. E., in west Catholic Church at
Clark were saddened to learn I
of his sudden death at his home
In San Antonio at 8 p. m.
“New Hcpe for Hearts” is the
j keynote of the 1951 Heart Fund
j campaign which got underway
I in West this week when Donald
Ashley, American Legion com-
mander and chairman of the
campaign distributed collection
boxes to business firms alnd
local schools.
The American Legion is
sponsoring the local campaign
in cooperation with a national
movement to raise $8,000,000 to
help achieve new scientific
advances and public health
progress in combating heart
disease, the leading cause of
death and disability In the
nation.
No special campaign is plan-
ned for West, according to Mr.
Ashley. Only the money dropped
into the collection boxes in the
form of hearts will go toward
the West quota.
Generous contributions are
sought in this campaign, those
in charge pointing out that
most of the money raised will be
used to buy equipment and pro-
vide better faculties and treat-
ment at the heart clinic at
Crippled Children’s Hospital
where little victims of rheu-
matic fever are being given a
new chance to live. Sixty per
cent of the money raised will
be used for this purpose.
Saturday, Feb. 3. Mr. Clark is
well known here, having lived
in West for many years.
He is survived by two broth-
ers, E. L. Clark of West and G.
R. Clark of Robinson; three
sisters, Miss Sallle Clark and
9:30 a. m„ Rev. E. J. Polcak of-
ficiating. Rosary was recited at
7:30 p. m. Monday.
Mrs. Gajdusek died at her
jhome here at 5:50 p. m. Sunday.
Burial was in St. Mary’s Ceme-
tery at West.
Survivors are one son, Joe
Gajdusek of West; one daughter,
Mary Gajdusek of West; three
Mrs. Lydia Lawshe of West and J grantjchildren and one great-
Mrs. Maggie Woodard of Elk' grandchild.
mont, Alabama. - ! ' __
E. L. Clark returned to Wcstj Mrs. Jack Wilkinson and Miss
on Tuesday after attending Mary Ann Holecek spent Wed-
funeral services for his brother I nesday and Thursday in Austin
in San Antonio at 4 p. m. I where they took the State
Monday. I Beauty Operators examination.
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Mrs. Bill Zatopek has been | month course of study at the
on the sick list for a few days. Chicago Beauty School in Waco.
Women Unite to Push
'March of Dimes’ Fund
EDDIE GRIMM RECALLED
TO SERVICE IN NAVY
Eddie Grimm, retired after
twenty years with the U. S.
Navy, was recalled to active
duty this week. He is to report
at New Orleans on Monday for
physical examination.
Grimm returned to West
after his retirement. Taking his
place in the community as a
civilian, he entered business and
married the former Rudy Wil-
liams.
Grimm was not a member of
the Reserve, but points out that
20-year servicemen arc subject
to call any time within ten
years after retirement.
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Emil Gerik has been ill for
the past week.
Philosopher Agrees With Experts Who
Warn Against Wearing Out Farm Land
(Editor's Note: The Aqullla
Philosopher on his Johnson grass
farm on Aqullla Creek has
thawed out after the cold snap,
his letter this week reveals.)
Dear editar:
I was out here yesterday still
tryin to thaw out from the cold
spell we had,
as far as I'm
concerned the
kind of weath- ^
er we had in
that spell can
just skip me
from here on
out, most folks
spent the time
worrin about
their livestock
temperature goes below 32 I
stop worryin about my cows and
start worryin about myself, at
any rate, after the sun came out
and I was convinced It was goln
to atav out a while 1 cased out
U Ujt house and wabdored
alter
but
apound and found a copy of a
newspaper which had frozen
stiff durin the blizzard but was
now as limp as the day it come
off the press and picked out a
sunny spot and started catchin
up on the news.
After I caught up on the war
news, found out which side had
Seoul this week and what the
United Nations was votin on,
they’ve got their votin down
pretty good now but ain’t had
much luck gettln anybody to
pay any attention to the results,
I got on down to the home front
news and read where an agri-
cultural expert has been worryin
about farmers doin too good a
job this comin year in incctln
the nation's production needs.
This expert was warnin farmers
In their all-out effort to pro-
duce not to harm their soil
through over-enthusiasm to pro-
duce mere.
This may be good advice for
some farmers, but I will ap-
preciate you tellin the experts
from Austin to Washington that
with all the things they got to
worry about they can ease their
minds when it comes to worryin
about me producin too much. I
stopped wearin out my soli years
ago, not so much on account of
what it was doin to the soil as
what it was doin to me. If there’s
anything I can do, it’s hold the
line when it comes to gettln
over-enthusiastic about plowln.
Me and the experts see eye to
eye on that.
And If it don't rain around
here, my neighbors may not
produce any more this year than
I do, and I’m frank to say there
ain't no nation on earth can
win a war on that sort of pro-
duction.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Students Make
High Averages
First Semester
Fourteen students of West
High School made averages of
ninety or above in all of their
subjects for the first semester.
They are Virginia Cocek, Daniel
Foyt, Preston Hogue, Betty Jo
Lednicky, Jerome Lednicky, Al-
bert Leuschner, Billy Llchnovsky,
John Larry McCain, Thalia
Moore, Leon Nedbalek, Johnnie
Petter, Shirley Robinson, Mau-
rita Russell, Shelia Shields.
Other students who also made
the first honor roll are Evelyn
Aderhold, Maxine Brennan, Mary
Drews, Patsy Brennan, Charles
Garretson, Glenda King, Mary
Frances Nors, Jerry Opella, and
Eulee Mae Pomykal.
For the second nine-week
period eighteen students made
all A's: Virginia Cocek, Charles
Garretson, Shirley Hill, Preston
Hogue, Annie Jane Karlik, Betty
Jo Lednicky, Jerome Lednicky,
Albert Leuschner, Billy Lich-
novsky, John Larry McCain,
Thalia Moore, Leon Nedbalek,
Mary Frances Nors, Johnnie
Petter, Shirley Robinson, Edith
Arlene Rydel, Evelyn Slay, and
Ima Jean Walls. Others who also
made this first honor roll were
Evelyn Aderhold, Pauline Blaha,
Patsy Brennan, Mary Drews,
Frank Foitek, Daniel Foyt, Wm.
Horn, Joseph Laubert, Jerry
Opella, Gwendolyn Quillian, Gil-
bert Schutza, Shelia Shieldes,
and Lorraine Vrba.
On the second honor roll for
the semester are the following
students: Celia Barber, Doris
Bezdek, Neill Black, Pauline
Blaha, Vanlta Cammack, Neta
Christian, Lou Ella Clements,
Shirley Crabb, Dero Davidson,
Patsy Ruth Eastwood, Edwin
Edwards, Frank Foitek, Dorothy
Foyt, Joyce Gaiser, Asa Gamble,
Cordelia Hawkins, Peggy Headen,
John Hegar, Georgia Heitmiller,
Shirley Hill, Helen Hoeldtke,
Barbara Holacka, June Holloway,
William Horn, Helen Hornak,
Donald Hutcheson, Barbara
Jezek, Annie Jane Karlik, Mack
Kincer, Angeline Klodginsky,
Vernon Kostohryz, Barbara Ku-
bacak, Joseph Laubert, George
Llchnovsky, Benny Marek, Irene
Marek, Robert Matus, Johnnie
Nors, Dorothy Olsovsky, Rose
Marie Petter, Margaret Piscacek,
Calvin Popp, Gwendolyn Quil-
lian, John Roessler, John Joe
Ruzicka, Edith Arlene Rydel,
Clarence Schuetz, Gene Schutza,
Gilbert Schutza, Evelyn Slay,
Jerry Stacy, Paul Sterling, Patsy
Stratcn, Dennis Sulak, Harry
Sulak, Janice Svrcek, Lorraine
Vrba, Ima Jean Walls, Lois
Wyatt.
The second honor roll for the
last nine weeks is as follows:
Celia Barber, Doris Bezdek, Neill
Black, Maxine Brennan, Vanita
Cammack, Neta Christian, James
Clark, Shirley Crabb, Patsy Ruth
Eastwood, Edwin Edwards, Dor-
othy Foyt, Joyce Gaiser, Asa
Gamble, Christine Gerik. Marvin
Goldsmith, Cordelia Hawkins,
Peggy Headen, John Hegar,
Georgia Heitmiller, Tracy Hla-
vaty, Helen Hoeldtke, Barbara
Holacka, Helen Hornak, Donald
Hutcheson, Barbara Jezek, Kir-
wln Jupc, Glenda King, Angc-
line Klodginsky, Vernon Kos-
tohryz, George Lichnovsky, Ben-
ny McGee, Gcorgianne Marek,
Evelyn Mashek, Robert Matus,
Johnnie Nors, Dorothy Olsovsky,
Rose Mario Opella, Rose Marie
Petter, Margaret Piscacek, Eulee
Mae Pomykal, Calvin Popp, John
Roessler, Maurita Russell, John
Joe Ruzicka, Clarence Schuotz,
'Charles Smalstrla, Martha Star-
nes, Paul Sterling, O. C. Stone,
Patsy Straten, Dennis Sulak,
Harry Sulak, Janice Svrcek, Jim-
my Tennlson, Carol Ann Upt-
inorc, Lois Wyatt, and Elo James
Zatopek.
Friendly Facts
By Roy L. Crawford.
"Who is my neighbor,"
asked one of old;
“Anyone who needs your
help,” so he was told.
tall M (or your Jolt t'riutUtf.
Church Women
Will Observe
Day of Prayer
Church women of nine
churches of West and vicinity
will observe World Day of
Prayer on Friday afternoon of
this week at 2:30 o’clock at the
First Presbyterian Church.
This day will be observed by
special prayer services in 93
countries around the world, and
will be the third year In which
the women of the churches of
West have observed the day in
a united service.
Mrs. Roy L. Crawford, chair-
man of the committee which
arranged the program, said, ”We
have had a good attendance on
both previous years and we
are expecting a large number
next Friday afternoon.”
All women are Invited to the
service.
West P-TA to
Present Special
Program Feb. 15
The West P-TA will meet
Thursday, February 15th, at
7:30 p. m. in the high school
gymnasium. A very interesting
program has been planned for
the evening. Supt. M. F. Kruse
will speak, using as his topic,
"Molding the Child Into the
Best Type of Citizen.”
Folk songs and dance will be
given by the third and fourth
grades.
Founders program will be
presented under the direction
of Mrs. Floyd McCoy, Mrs. Evelyn
Mcses and the Dramatic Club.
"Deep Are the Roots,” will be
the playlet presented.
During the month of February
35,000 P-TA’s will celebrate the
founding of the National Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers.
On Feb. 17th, 1897, in Washing-
ton, D. C., Alice McLellan Bir-
ney presided at the first meet-
ing, assisted by her friend and
co-wtorkcr, Phoebe Apperson
Hearst.
The nursery will be open in
the band house where Mrs.
Roberta Gidney and her home-
making girls will care for pre-
school age youngsters while the
parents attend the P-TA meet-
ing. A film will be shown to the
little folks.
MOVE TO DALLAS
John Lee Gerik. employee of
the Veterans Administration in
Waco for the past several years,
received a promotion this week
and transfer to the Dallas VA
office. He and his family have
been living In West while he
worked in Waco. They will move
to Dallas this week after dis-
posing of their home here.
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Recognizing the need for ad-
ditional funds to finance the
polio campaign, West ladles
organized this week and will
conduct a house-to-house can-
vass from 9:00 to 11:00 a. m.
Saturday.
Mrs. Alta Johnson, who heads
the list of workers, pointed to
the heavy Increase In polio
throughout the State and na-
tion. She reminded that state
and national funds of the In-
fantile paralysis foundation
have been exhausted and In-
creased effort on the part of
every citizen is needed to keep
up the fine work of this organ-
ization.
West has always contributed
generously to the “March of
Dimes” annual campaign, how-
ever a large portion of the an-
nual fund has been raised at
the “March of Dimes Dance”
conducted each year. Extreme
ccld weather caused cancellation
of the dance this year, there-
fore the fund is far below the
usual quota at a time when an
Increase Is needed.
Local ladies have volunteered
their services in the house-to-
h<o use campaign Saturday
morning and urge the coopera-
tion of the public. Ladles who
will make the calls are:
Mesdames D. T. Adams, Jack
Archer, Wayland Alexander,
Emil Blahuta, Larry Brennan,
Clyde Bennett John Boggess,
J. C. Bullock Jr., John Chudej,
Carl Coleman, Roy L. Crawford,
Ed Deitermann, Albin Dvoracek.
Chas. Eyenton, Jimmy Gidney,
Ernest Gerik, Tuck Greenwade,
John Hurtick, J. A. Haley, Rud.
Janek, Frank Jezek, Emil
Jerabek, Oeo. Kacir, Louis
Kramr, J. B King, Hugh Law.
J. J. Lednicky, Henry Lednicky,
Aug. Morris, Joe Mazanec, Ed
Mashek, Ida Moore, Hollis Mc-
Mahan, Rud. Nemecek, John
Ncmecek, Fred Plsek, Frank
Popp, Frank Prasifka. E. G.
Reed. Jimmy Snokhous, Vince
Sula, Charles Smalstrla, G. W.
Seat. Weolay Sulak, Percy
Smith, Edith Trammell, Arless
Valentine, R. Wendorf, Everett
Ia;e Willis, Henry Zapalac.
Over 800 homes will be visited
by the above ladies Saturday
morning. Prior to opening of
the canvass they will meet In
the Veterans Agricultural loom
on South Main Street, where
working teams will receive maps
of the area they are to cover.
IIENRY MATUS BUYS
INTEREST IN PRODUCE CO.
Henry Matus. who has been
employed by The Texas Com-
pany for the past six years, re-
signed his position with the
firm this week to become part
owner of the Farmer’s Produce.
Mr. Matus purchased a half In-
terest in the business from Mrs.
Ed Marek and will be In part-
nership with A. J. Gallia.
Your attention is called to an
advertisement placed by the
firm in this issue.
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