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LA GRANGE, TEXAS (In the Heart of CRIDAIand), TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1001
IB EH
DEMONS RALLY
TO PULL GAME
FROM FIRE 10-4
Defeat East Bernard
For Fifth Straight;
Smithvifle Victors
The I„i Grunge Jaycee De-
mons hail to come from behind
to down East Bernard's Ma-
roons, Id 1, and notch their ,
fifth straight triumph in the i
South-Central Texas Amateur |
League at East Bernard Sun- |
day.
ST. JOHN S HIGH SCHOLARS
mPK^ifwf T & NO Wreck Smashes 28 Train Cars
STARTS PLANS
ELLINGER GETTING SET TO STAGE
COLORFUL FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY
FOR 4TH FETE
Afternoon, Night
Event Scheduled;
Delegates Named
125 Dairymen Here
To Get Explanation
Of Fed Milk Order
One hundred and twenty-
live dairymen from Fayette
and several of the surrounding
i counties attended a meeting at
Derailment Near
West Point Friday
Does Huge Damage
After a lapse of several' at 10:30 a. m. Cash prizes of
year, Elhnj-er’s Chamber of $20, $15 and $10 are being of-
D1 , „ ... U 'w , a Tu V Commerce will stage-m place fered for the most beautiful
, Plans for the annual J uly he VF W home here Thursday (,u> „](| lomat()“festivities- floats, and $5 for the most com-
4th celebration were inaugur- I night to hear an explanation ot , . ,
1 ated at the last meeting of Fay- j the Federal marketing order 1 a. Sa,B chamber-sponsored fes-
ette Memorial post. VFW. ! affecting the sale of milk. j E/al “ that htlle °ty Sunday’
i May 28
As last year, the event will1 —
ieal entry.
Pictured
Adeline t in F ayetteville.
The meeting was called by j Activities get underway
again be an evening atiaii It (be p’ayette County Dairy- j with a colorful street parade
will begin with a chicken and Inen s Association, and invited -
sausage barbecue supper at 5
iMae Simla, daughter „l Mr.; Th. a,...........teamen, add,a,s'1 Bta.WI."™ I alt'S, |,KtAN SPRAYING
" "for the graae school and high dance is scheduled in the eve- Producers Association area
The Smithville Merchants and Mrs Leroy Shula. who is
kept pace with the league-lead-| va|edictorian of the St. John i school will he delivered by ~no"
High chool, Fayetteville grad-I Brother Francis Borgia Woeh- There will be the usual'run
ualing class. Jo Ann Mascheek, ler, CSC, dean of St. Edward’s of entertainment and conces-
right, is the 1961 class saluta-! University, Austin. Besides sion features to offer dlver-
torian. She is the dgughtei of j being dean at St F,r)ward’s, sion.
assistant While in meeting, the post
NADA HERE JUNE 2
The Nada Rebers play La
Grange's Jaycee Demons at
Fair Park here Friday night, j Mr and Mrs. Hugo Mascheek I Brother' Francis
June 2. This will be the De- Sr. I professor of education and so-
mons night baseball opener of j Cominencement exercises c.ology He has bachelor of
the year, eic wt serve as a for lbe c|ass (Jf 2] will be held 'arts and master of arts degrees
make-up or t ie game raim-c gunf|ay jvjay 28 at 7:30 p m. i from the University of Notre
out at. Nada on April 30. gt St John's Catholic church I Dame
At Rowling Alleys
mg Demons by defeating the 1
Nada Rebels by 7-2, dimmu- Legion Mulls Plans
tive Dvan Dyal registering his .
third mound victory of the ^ For Adding SpilCC
season.
The Maroons got off to a one-
run lead in the second stanza
and plated two more in the
fourth on a walk, Bob Blazek’s
second two-bagger, and a brace
of sacrifices. A three-run rally
on as many bingles tied it for
La Grange in the top of the
fifth, after which the Demons
plated single tallies in the
sixth and seventh.
|Carmine Area Man
Killed Friday Eve
In Highway Mishap
East Bernard annexed a lone
run in the lower eighth, which
was followed by a five-talley
barrage by La Grange in the
ninth. Only two Demon hits
ligured in ihe mass scoring,
which was abetted by four
Maroon fielding errors, two
bases on balls and a pair of
sacrifices.
Both Blazek of East Bernard,
who gave way to Jerome Via-
elovsky in the fatal ninth, and
Ovie Roensch of La Grange
doled out 10 basehits but the
latter’s were more of the scat-
tered variety. Roensch kayoed
eight and free-passed only one
as he lacked on his second win
of the year Blazek, who whdf
ed 12 Demons, also paced both
clubs at bat with three doubles
and a single Rick Roberts dou-
bled and singled, and Npal
Hlinsky and Fred Deutrich
each garnered a brace of sin-
gles to lead the Demon offen-
sive
Weimar’s Veterans downed
the lowly Plum Ravens, 14-4,
and Shiner’s Clippers nosed
out the Jiapless Bernardo Hur-
ricanes, 9-8, in other games.
The results left Weimar and
Shiner tied for third and fourth
places in the standings, and
the Nada loss dropped the Rebs
to fifth.
A plan to rearrange the A 34-year-old Carmine area
front portion of the bowling man, Val Gene Kunkel. lost
alleys so as to provide more! his life Friday night at about
room for bowlers was discuss- , 9:20 o'clock when he was
ed by members of the La struck by a car as he was
Grange American post Thurs- walking across Highway 290.
da.v night j Xfjig accident occurred about
A special meeting is to be; four 7nll«s‘S«st of Carmine and
held in the near future, when three miles west of Burton,
the prosposition is to he dis- inear the Siebel store. Mr.
Kunkel’s pick-up was report-
ed to have stalled, and he was
walking to the store to get
help when he was struck by
the car driven by a Houston
man
Funeral services for Mr
Kunkel, who resided all his
life on a farm east of Carmine
were held at the Martin Luth-
er church in Carmine Sunday
at 3 p. m. with the Rev. A. M.
Hannemann officiating Burial
was in the LaBahia cemetery,
gate to the forthcoming Boys’ I with services directed by the
State at Austin; and it was al-I Foehner Funeral Home of Bur-
so reported that members *,,n
John R G Reimers and Henry j The young man, who was not
Wes els were in the VA hospi- ! married, was bereft of his
tal in Temple ajid F’rank Sa- father, Alfred Kunkel.
brsula was in Ihe VA hospital
cussed more fully.
It was voted that the post
order two hospital beds, to be
used in the community and
where they are needed.
Several reports were heard
at the monthly meeting. One
was that the post had been
presented a special award from
the National commander for
having surpassed the 1960
membership quota; another
was that the post was sponsor-
ing Joe Michael Kana as dele-
also named delegates to the an
nual VFW state convention,
which this year will be held at
San Antonio June 30 through
July 3.
Delegates are Gunther Beh-
rens. Roland Froehlich. Ed
Harbers, Leo Janda and W. C.
Tielsch; and alternates chosen
are Werner von Minden, Ted
Harbers. Aubrey D Voelkel,
Anton Recek and Delton Wes-
sels.
TIME NOW HERE
r Dun*lam' economist Countv Agent Clinton R
for STPA, explained facts of Bippert says the time for
the order with the aid of slides, ,praying pet.a„ tret.s for nut
and main speaker was STPA s casebearer is here, and that the
general manager, Roy Smith. | job shou]d be done b Thurs-
Twenty-eight cars ot n south-
bound Texas & New Orleans
Railroad freight train jumped
the tracks, were tossed heller
skelter and caused thousands
of dollars in damages in a de-
I railment near the Texaco, Inc.,
I clay plant, about live miles
Beef barbecue and sausage southwest ol West Point and
will be served at 11:30 a. m., approximately 15 mile, from
and again at 5 p m. at a dollar j La Grange, F riday at about 3
' a plate for adults and 50^ for ' a. m.
children. There’ll also be bar-I N of Lhe ,ram cl(!w was
becue and sausage to go at lnjured ln the Jc„< wh,-h
a ° al a Pounr j scattered box cars into an ad-
Amusements of all kinds' jacent pa,,tun on one ade of
are carded during the day andjthe tracks and to the edg of
well into the evening The i the pavement ol I'M Road 154
Lone Star Brass Band will of-(on the other
ler concert music from 11 un-
Both are of Houston.
Dairy product refreshments ] •> good kill,
were served the large gather-
ing after the session was con-
cluded.
day of this week in order to
A number of orchards were
sprayed the latter days of last
week by a commercial sprayer,
whose equipment was ade-
quate to reach the tops of the
largest trees to be found, the
ag nt said Ot course, a num-
ber of local pecanmen have
Auxiliary of their own ,Jpraying equipment
World Wa, 1 Veterans met m hich Ls sUfficient for their
the La Giange State I nee<Js—and they should use it
Auxiliary WWI Vets
Elects Delegates
The Ladies
Commander Cyrill R. Kal- : Pioneer Room at 2 p. m. Sat- j al once ryjr Bippert -.fated
lus and Adjutant Behrens were urday.
named delegates to the Dis- , , , ,,
, e .. . . . Mrs. Claja Layman and Mrs.
trict 5 meeting, which was held -r ,, a , , , ,
c. j . » . Xillie Kuhmann were elected
delegates to the Bellville dis-
trict meeting to be held Sun-
day, May 28. Mrs. Adels Sch-
ulze and Mrs. Clara Legler
were elected alternate dele-
gates.
til 5 o’clock, and concessions,
rides—including a ferris wheel
—and other attractions will be
provided for diversion.
Ray Krenex’s Orchestra
will play for tFie dance at night.
Chamber of Commerce spon-
sors say the celebration will
be staged “rain or shine.” and
they invite all to. “come out
and enjoy yourselves where
old friends meet'”
LG Medie Attends
Sunday at Austin.
Fitzpatrick Will
Attend Chiro Meet
Dr. E. L Fit7.partick of La
Grange will attend the 46th
annual convention of the Tex-
as Stale Chiropractic Assocci-
ation which opens in San An-
tonio June 8
More than 500 practitioners
from all parts of the state are
expected at the three-day
meeting.
A portion of the convention
program will be devoted to a
series of refresher and post
graduate courses that will per-
mit those attending to meet
the requirements of a state
The agent added that there Heart Ass’n Course
an excellent set of pecans
Included in the wreckage
were several boxcars loaded
with canned goods and ciga-
rettes. cement and bulk
wheat, a tank car, several
flatcars loaded with South-
ern Pacific transport vans, an-
other flatcar loaded with two
US Navy-type helicopter: and
at least 10 empty cattle cars —
most of which were smashed
to splinters. *
this year.
Six 4-HJers Will Go
To Leadership Lab
Six Fayette 4-H'ers along
i with the county Extension a-
All members are urged to j gents, will attend the District
attend the district meeting. Re-! 1° junior leadership laborato- ___________ __________^
gistration will begin at 9 30 a. j D’ to he held in Seguin June|as Southwestern Medical
m. A barbecue dinner will be i 12-15 at the Texas Lutheran | School in Dallas and was of-
served at noon followed by thejco[[fge. (fered as a service of the Texas
The accident ripped up a
long distance of the main right*
of-way track, hut emergency
i repairs had been completed
Sand freight train traffic was
Dr. James 1 Makinson of i resumed over oc route 15
La Giange recently attended I hours later bv 6 p. m. Friday,
a special course in a new. non- j A temporary siding was laid
restoring jby taj|rokcT iiiaintenace crew*
to facilitate the permanent re-
•uflgMai method ot ■
the beat to a stopped heart, ac- _ ............
cording to Di George E Clark i pajr work which continued .
Jr. of Austin, president of the er (bp weekend, and in unload-
Texas Heart Association.
The teaching session was
held at the University of Tex-
business meeting.
Music Pupils
Present Recitals
Phose attending will include | Heart Association, jointly with
Jimmie Schaefer and Gale
Miss Jeannette Alexander
presented a number of her
pupils in two separate recitals j Junior 4-H leaders in
i Saturday night and Sunday af- I county in District 10.
law and qualifying for re-lic- ! ternoon. the second and third three-day school consist
ensing. ' *
Lamascus, district council dele-
gates; Herbie Janssen. Bruce
Frenzel, Janice Dopslauf and
LaVerne Bains, junior leaders.
This leadership training is
given each year to outstanding
each
This
ing some of the witched bo*
cars
Cause of the wreck wr not
Immediately determined, of-
ficials of the road wore report-
ed to have said.
The branch of the T&NO on
which the accident happened
is the old SA&AP, and runs
from Waco to Yoakum.
in Houston. Post Member E.
R Mayer, who was in the local
hospital, was also remembered.
ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs David M
Murray of Hattiesburg, Miss,
announce the birth of their
tiiird daughter, Allison Anne,
born May 6 She weighed
eight pounds, one and one-
half ounces. Grandparents are
Mr and Mrs Anton E Vasek
of La Grange and Mr and
Mrs. R J. Murray of Arling-
ton
little IC of C Enters
more than a year ago, and his m„„4 » - . ..
mother passed away two At Lidding**
passed away
months later j The La Grange Chamber of
Surviving are a brother, W,l- j Commerce entered a float in
Jimd | |he colorful parade at Giddings
Thursday afternoon, the open-
ing of the Sheriff’s Posse rodeo.
Riding on the float were
seven little folks namely, Ju-
dith Guenlher Carol Lukas,
Connie Pechal, Janice Roitsch,
Timothy Sulak. John Phillip
Williams and Dennis Winkler
In the car pulling the float
were W C. Hunter, Edgar
and
several uncles and aunts.
4TH DEGREE TO ELECT
A meeting of the Bishop
Odin Assembly, 4th Degree
Knights of Columbus will be
held at the K of C Home
the American Heart Associa- ]
tion as part of a campaign to I
disseminate information on the
new lifesaving technique to
physicians.
Physicians who participated
in the course are expected to
conduct similar teaching ses- (
sions for other doctors in then Mrs Vei mika Kon - ieka. 93,
, ■ , - ------- --1 own commun ties. It is not of Wallis, died at her home
j" a M,lcs ° P'-'Mams pit | training in various fields such planned at the present time to there on M r, 19 following a
<n , ' "nn^ ' ‘ Pllnb'Hs health safety, career explo- .teach the method to other than ■,,vr,.il mth dim
"a f I'ation, money management, physicians. Funeral services were held
cE •*** 1 ^.....T?-
,‘a tJ°Ps t,v,‘ aetense, wua method has been found sue- ing at the Wallis Catholic
li e photography, citizenship cessful in restoring the heart church Rev A W Nesvadb*
uS.Vfh t*aj"i.n?,bea.t in 70U Of case, rts appli „ff,c.-,tmt Bin in I m the
cation by untrained persons is Fayetteville Catholic cemete-
here at 7:30 p m. Thursday
Election of officers will be the
principle item on the agenda
Refreshments will be enjoyed ( Roitsch. Herbert Lange
after the meeting I Ernest Kallus.
The Tucker Foundation Of Katy
New Group Camp Is Being Built Near Warda
area is 30 by 8(1 feet adequate | perished in a private
All-concrete construction of
dormitories, aafeteria with din-
ing room and other installations
at the new Tucker Foudation
encampment on Highway 77,
about 10 miles north of La
Grange, is now well underway I struction
n.ul ls expected to be suffici-I The dormitories, or cabins,
ently completed by the time j as well as other buildings will
to seat 180 people comfortably.
Combination shower and
restroom facilities also are un-
der construction. A swimming
pool is planned for later con-
crash
Mrs
I hr
itial church
group arrives June 22
The site is in a thickly wood-
ed pine forest, which might be
termed the easternmost edge windows and steel doors
of the Lost Pines of Texas, and The Tucker Foundation was
eventually will comprise 30 ac- chartered in 1954 by Mrs. T
res. B Tucker and her son-in-law
Construction is moving a- and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
he ad rapidly on the 15 dorm- Raymond Barker. All are of
- U 1 C L • • OO f rx /, 4 , *'* ofu
lluritLx. t*m:n to uy icc» •*» | »*.«««_»
size and adequate for eight j The foundation is non-sec-
campers and a supervisor, and i larian, and was established in
plane | ed water for the entire cantp-
near Lockhart in 1940 site via a pressure pumping
Tucker and the Barkers ' system,
are ardent church workers, in Barker declared that the
fact, Mr. Barker is on the job first camping group, which is
daily and serves as general ( due to arrive June 22, will be
overseer of the camp project ' comprised of members of the
Barker said that approxi- i Apostolic faith from the South | ALLEYS BURGLARIZED
mately $50,000 is to be spent on j Texas area However, no more
with sessions are planned this sum-
friends attended both and en-
joyed the well-rendered num-
bers.
Taking part Saturday were
Terry and David Tannen of
Weimar, Kathy Blalock, Ter-
ry Blume, Lucy Todd, Jane
Frances Sulak and Irwin No-
vak
On the program Sunday af-
ternoon were Donald and
James Bremer, Phillip Guen-
ther, Bill Swam, Mary Ellen
Battelle and Melba Faye
Young.
SMALL CAR FLIPS
A Volkswagon occupied by
three women, believed to have
been from Houston, overturn-
ed on Highway 71 about three
miles west of La Grange Sat-
urday. but the occupants sus-
tained only minor bruises De-
puty Sheriff C A Prilop in-
vestigated. but he could not be
reached for a report. Monday
morning.
Wallis Lady Buried
At Fayetteville
is designed to help 4-H’ers
plan and carry out such acti-
vities in their home commun-
ities.
HAVE SON
Mr and Mr.s Bernard Frie-
del of Fayetteville became the
happy parents of a six pound
six ounce son who arrived Sat-
urday at Fayette Memorial
hospital. He was named Mark
Wayne.
WILL MEET
The La Grange Garden Club
will meet Thursday, May 25
at 8 jj m at the home of Mrs.
Celeste Willmann Mrs Elvira
Saxon and Mr.s. T J. Flour-
noy will be her co-hostesses.
not without hazard, however,
according to the Texas Heart
Association, and for this rea-
son the professional teaching
institute at Southwestern Med-
ical School was arranged.
The 'li re,i,ed was :i native
of Czechoslovakia and was
reared there.
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs Julie Kulhanek of Wallis
and Mrs Annie Minarcik. of
Sweet Home two sons. Frank
, , , , , i Konvicka of Wharton anti Louis
vised the weekend of the pass- Klimlrk., .„ ,v,„„v,lle f,f-
DIES IN GERMANY
Mrs. Annie Meinen was ad-
ing of her aunt, Mrs Wilhel-
mine Bielefeld, 90 who died at
Oldenburg, Germany on April
22. Mrs. Meinen had been in
Germany to visit with Mrs
Bielefeld, her last remaining
maternal aunt, in 1953 She
also was the aunt of Mrs W
C. Tramp and Mrs Antonio
Lueders of La Grange
camping j bp given a chiproek effect ex- | the project this year
terior finish and interiors will ] possibly a similar amount in |mer. hut “we hope to have
be finished in all-white. All 1962 — but the overall figure j everything real comfortable
buildings will have aluminum I will eventually far exceed the ' and ready for continuous
the combination cafeteria-din
ing room The kitchen is 30 by
42 feet in size and the dining
memory of Mrs Tucker's hus-
band and two sons, well known
Katy area rice farmers who
$100,000 mark
The entire camp grounds are
being cleaned of undesirable
undergrowth, and hundreds of
young pines that are not in
the way of buildings or thor-
ougofrties have been nicely
trimmed in an effort to keep
the surroundings as near nat-
ural as possible. A 300-foot-
plus well has been drilled, and
is sufficient to provide approv-
Deputy Sheriff C. A Prilop
was in Schulejnburg Monday
morning to investigate a bur-
glary of the Tri-Association
bowling alleys there the prev-
ious night. At press-time, there
was no report as to whal was
taken
BOWLERS TO \\F.FT
A meeting of the Women’s
camping by 1962," he said
Although the facilities will
he open to any kind of group,
Barker explained that the
greater preference will be giv-
en to church organizations
Rufus Altmarin, La Orange I Bowling Association has been
contractor, is in charge of the 1 scheduled for 7:30 u. m Tues-
concrete work, which is due to 1 day at the American Legion
utilize thousands of saeks of hall Election of officers will
cement by the time all instal- he held All members are urg- grades
lations are tfoiad. ed to attend.
Teacher, Fayette Native:
HE’LL RETIRE AFTER 55 YEARS
After 55 years in the teach-
ing profession, John A Ahl-
hom. principal of the Welcome
elementary school in Austin
county, has announced his re-
tirement at Ihe end of this
school year.
The 73-year-old school ad- j parents.
he attended for two years
“I had a pretty rough time
at first at Blinn,” he recalls.
"What had T learned-’ How to
read was about all That’s one
thing about Blinn in those
days—good teachers—just like
mimstrator began his leach-1 "I was lti when I started f
ing career in 190ti at the one- never will forget the day I
teacher, seven-grade Rock Hill j came to Carmine with my
school tn Fayette county—the! trunk to get on the train for
same school from which he gra- Brenham My trunk was one
dilated two years before 1 of the hand trunks and it fell
After completing the seven J open and spilled all my cloth
at Rook Hill, Ahlhom 1 es I then tied a rope around day, May 28 at 2 p m. Every
enrolled at Blinn collega, which * (Sea TEACHER, Page 2) one is invited to attend.
teen grandchildren and 28
great-grandchildren.
Three From Fayette
Due SWTSC Decrees
Three Fayette county stu-
dents at Southwest Texas
State college. San Marcos, are
among 213 candidates for de-
grees which will he awarded
at graduation exercises al 3 30
p m Sunday, May 28.
Candidates and degrees they
will receive are:
Johnny Orsak of La Grange,
bachelor of science in indus-
trial arts; John J Berk Jr. of
Flatonia, Rt 2, bachelor of
science and F’dwin R Floyd
of Flatonia, bachelor of science
in education
Vice President Lyndon John-
son will deliver the address at
Ihe spring commencement ex-
ercises.
DECORATION AT BYLER
Decoration Day services at
the Byler cemetery near Mul-
doon have been set for Sun-
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