The Flatonia Argus. (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1957 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 82
Flu Closes
Schools Here
The Trustees of the Fla-
tonia Independent School
District ordered all of the
Flatonia public schools be
closed Thursday and Fri-
day, Oct. 10 and 11, because
of the large percentage of
students absent because of
influenza.
Plans at this time are for
classes to be resumed Mon-
day morningt Oct. 14.
Albert iMach Dies
Monday in La Grange
Albert Mach, 96, of Plum
passed away in the Fayette
Memorial Hospital in La
Grange Monday morning.
Born in Europe April 23,
1861, he came to Texas at
the age of 16 to settle in
Fayette County, and had
lived in this sector since. He
married Rosie Korbel at La
Grange in 1910.
Funeral services were
held Tuesday at 8:30 a. m.
at the Koenig Funeral
Home, with continued serv-
ices at Sts. Peter and Paul
Catholic Church at Plum,
with Rev, Adolph Janda of-
ficiating. Interment was in
the Plum Catholic Ceme-
teiy.
suTvmnjr mr ttis wkidw i
six daughters, Mrs. Rud.
Hunger, Mrs. Annie Kore-
nek, Mrs. Julie Wittmann
and Mrs. Joe Dusek of La
Grange, Mrs. Rud. Janecek
of Port Lavaca and Mrs.
Wayne James of Spokane,
Wash.; four sons, Victor of
Flatonia, Stanley and John
of O’Quinn, and Eddie
Mach of Alvin; and other
relatives. He was the fath-
er of the late Albert F.
Mach, former county clerk
of Fayette County.—Fay-
ette Co. Record.
$2.00 Per Year in Advance In Texas FLATONIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1957
5c Per Copy
NUMBER 41
R. F. Keller Dies
R. F. Keller of Weslaco
passed away Sunday, Sept.
29. He was a former resi-
dent of Flatonia. The Ar-
gus plans to publish details
next week.
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Cemetery Association
Transacts Business
Oak Hill Cemetery Asso-
ciation, in its October 1
meeting, heard officers’ re-
ports arid transacted routine
business.
Mrs. A. F. Earley was ap-
pointed to the inspection
committee to work with
Mrs. George Hamon.
The association voted to
employ extra labor to assist
the sexton in the tremen-
dous burden caused by the
recent unprecedented rains.
Over 70 graves require re-
filling. This work is being
done as rapidly as possible,
-and the association asks
your understanding and pa-
tience.
Lot owners are reminded
that the sexton has no au-
thority to handle com-
plaints, suggestions, or re-
quests. All such matters
should be directed to Mrs.
Earley.
Flatonia Baptist
Church Services
.9:30 a.m.: Sunday school.
10:30 a. -m.: Morning
services.
6:30 p. m.: Training
Union.
7:30 p. m.: Evening serv-
ices.
Wednesday, 7:30 p,. m.:
Prayer services.
Methodist Church
Services—
Flatonia: Each Sunday,
9:30 a. m.
Muldoon: First and third
Sundays', 11 a. m.
Colony: Second and
fourth Sundays, 7:30 p. nv
, Subscribers to The Fla-
tonia Argus are PAID sub-
---acribara, Mr. Merchant!____
Balloting for Hallowe’en
Royalty Begins Oct. 12
‘Pat’ Patterson
Dies on Oct. 4th
T. W. (Pat) Patterson,
76, passed away about 4 a.
m. Friday, Oct. 4, at the
Faltysek Rest Home near
Moulton, where he had re-
sided for more than a year.
He had beep in failing
health for several months.
.-,P»t, as he was known by
his friends, was born near
Moulton, and lived practi-
cally all of his lifetime in
this area.
Funeral services were con-
ducted from the Chapel of
Smith Funeral Home in Fla-
tonia, Saturday, Oct. 5, at
3 p. m., with Rev. Claude
O’Neil, pastor of the Wael-
der Baptist Church, of-
ficiating. Interment was in
Flatonia City Cemetery be-
side his mother.
Surviving are three aunts
and numerous cousins.
Egg Law Meeting
Set for October 14
A meeting'to explain the
Texas Egg Law will be held
Monday night, Oct. 14, at
7:30 p. m. in the District
Courtroom at La Grange an-
nounces W. G. Johnson,
county agricultural agent,
Texas Agricultural Exten-
sion Service.
Russell Koontz, super-
visor District 5, Texas De-
partment of Agriculture,
will be present to explain
the law? and answer ques-
tions concerning the law.
Fayette County is in the dis-
trict that is supervised bv
Koontz.
The meeting is designed
to provide information con-
cerning the egg law to both
producers and dealers.
Everyone interested in
this program is. invited to
attend. _
Kelly Named F.F.A.
District Reporter
Recently at the District
IV F.E.A. meeting at Co-
lumbus, a Flatonia High
School F.F.A. student was
elected reporter. The stu-
dent is Tommy Kelly. Tom-
my has been quite active in
F.F.A. work during his high
school career. He was vice
president of Jhe local chap-
ter during -his junior year,
and also earned the Lone
Star Farmer Degree during
his three years of agricul-
ture work.
The voting delegates
from the local chapter,
namely Devon Boehnke and
Leonard Novak, attended
the meeting and will repre-
sent the local chapter at the
district meetings this year.
The annual Halowe’en
Queen coronation, supper
and carnival will be spon-
sored by the Flatonia P-TA
Oct. 26. This year the
Grade School and High
School will have a King
and Queen at the corona-
tion program. They wilTbe
elected by 25c votes. Each
person can vqte for-, one
HignSThool nominee and
one Grade 'School nominee.
A sealed ballot box will
be downtown at the bank
corner on Saturday, Oct. 12,
Saturday, Oct. 19, Saturday,
Oct. 26. Each voteg- will
have his or her name placed
in the ledger at the polls.
P-TA ladies will be in
charge - of the voting. No
absentee voting permitted
at the polls. No posters,
pictures or any advertise-
ments to be displayed.
Tbe^ following candidates
were elected in High
School:
Senior — Queen, Bobbie
Jean Wehmeyer; king, Wal-
ter Maeker; lady-in-wait-
ing, Helen i^atek ; escort,
Edwin Baca.
Junior — Queen, Efarlinj
Needham: king, Gary War
Lren: lady-in-waiting, Mary
'Anri Kit:!/. : escor!,' Harvey
Bauer. *
Sophomore—Queen, Mary
Bert Ford; king, Jimmy De-
Witt; lady-in-waiting, Ame-
lia Huff; escort, Richard
Steinhauser.
F’reshman—Queen, Myr-
try Etlinger; king, Douglas
Mach; lady-in-waiting, An-
pette Krhovjak; escort,
Frank Bridges. »*»**•
Grade School:
Eighth Grade: Lennert
Tupa, Peggy Mueller.
Seventh Grade — Dennis
Brunner, Juanita Zapalac.
Sixth Grade—Zefrin Pos-
pisil, Diane Rollig,
Fifth Grade — Dennis
Stryk, Teresa Schlick.
Fourth Grade (Mrs. Par-
ker)—Sam Wotipka, Bon-
nie Holstein. ••.
Fourth Grade (Mrs. Null)
—Martin Svatek, Betty By-
ler. .
Thirds Grade — Ronald
Wotipka. Barbara Brunner.
Second Grade—Anthony
Stryk, Mary Ann Zapalac.
First Grade — Anthony
Florus, Rebecca Michael.
Raises Fine Pecans
E. J. Knezek of Praha
has a very fine pecan crop
this year at his place. He
expects to harvest about
750 pounds this season.
He brought in two un-
usual clusters to The Argus
office Monday—one, of the
Mahan variety, had seven in
the cluster, and the other, a
Success, there were five.
SCHOOL MENU
OCT. 14 THRU 18
Monday: Tamales with
chili, Spanish rice, cabbage-
apple-pineapple salad, fruit
cocktail, bread, milk.
Tuesday: Ham burgers,
potato chips, chocolate pud-
ding, milk; extra hamburg-
er 15c.
Wednesday: Irish stew,
fruit coffee cake, crackers,
bread, milk.
Thursday: Meat loaf,'
brown beans, carrots, bread,
cherry cobbler, milk.
Friday: Fish, scalloped
potatoes, lettuce wedges,
peanut b u tie r cookies,
bread, milk.
Local High School
Slates Agriculture
Practice Teachers
Flatonia High School has
been selected as a student
teaching center by the De-
partment of Agricultural
Education at Texas A.&M.
College.
The student teachers,
Flatonia Loses Game
To Weimar, 13 to 7
Mrs. F. Nollkamper
Buried at La Grange
Mrs. Ella,. Nollkamper,
wife of Frank Nollkamper,
passed away Monday, Sept.
John Piej>sa of Victoria a*nty30, at Fayette Memorial
Harvey Pearcy of Seabrook,
will conduct classes in the
vocational agriculture de-
partment at Flatonia High
School during Oct. 14-25,
according to Albert L. Ford,
superintendent, of schools.
Piepsa and Pearcy, stu-
dents at Texas A.&M., are
preparing to become teach-
ers of vocational agriculture
after graduation.
In preparation for this
professjori, they will spend
two weeks of this semester
doing student teaching.
Such teaching, made pos-
sible by cooperation of the
local agriculture depart
pient and Texas A.&M., per-
mits- them to gain direct
teaching experience under
supervision of an experi-
enced teacher of vocational
agriculture.
E. V. Waltorf, head of the
Agricultural Education De-
partment at A.&M. College,
said that the local voo
al agriculture department,
with Leon Kainer as teach-
er, is considered one of the
outstanding departments in
Texas.
He also- said he felt con-
fident the student teachers
would gain valuable ex-
perience while at Flatonia
High Schqtr'
Ivald
[anzelka
nde
Miss Andei
Weds Geo,
On Saturday! Oct. 5. the
marriage of Miss Charlie
Ann AnderwaM, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. V. W. An-
derwald of San Antonio and
George Hanzelka, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Han-
zelka of Cistern, was sol-
emnized in . St. Gerard's
Catholic'Church in San An-
tonio.
Hospital. She was 75.
\MtfS. Nollkamper, daugh-
ter of the late Ernest Hengst
arid wife, was born Sept. 7,
1882, at O’Quinn, and was
Jinited in marriage there
with Mr. Nollkamper on
Dec. 8, 1903. She resided
in and around La Grange all
of Her life. For the past
three years she made her
home with her soii, August,
in Flafonia.
Funeral services were
held Wednesday, Oct. 2. at
the Koenig Funeral Home
Chapel, the Rev. II. T.
Flachmeier officiating, and
interment was made in the
Cedar Cemetery. »
Surviving ’are ' her hus-
band, currently at a rest
home at Comfort; four sons,
August, of Flatonia; John
and Rudolph of La Grange
and Gus Nollkamper of New
Braunfels; a daughter, Mrs.
Vernita Solomon of Ceres,
Chas. Harbers of Plum; two
sisters, Mrs. Alfred Reiehle
of La Grange and Mrs.
Henry Fritsch of Fayette-
ville; five brothers, Hugo
and Walter Hengst of Port
Lavaca, Chas. and Rudolph
Hengst of La Grange, and
Ernst Hengst of Schulen-
burg; six grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
The Flatonia High School
Bulldogs lost last Friday’s
night’s football game play-
ed here, to the Weimar High
Wildcats, 13-7, after hold-
ing a 7-0 lead at the close
of the first half. The Wei-
mar touchdowns came with-
in about two minutes of each
other in the fading moments
of the third period.
The Bulldogs dominated
all phases of play during the
first half, but this was re-
versed in the final half s^nd
cost the locals the ba44-ga,me.
Flatonia held Weimar 'and
look over on downs on its
own 13 yard line late in the
first period on the first se-
rious scoring threat" of the
game.
Early in the second quar-
ter, Larry DeWitt passt^i
successfully to Donnie Mica
who carried for a first down
on the Weimar 14. but the
Wildcats took over on their
own 7. Later, receiving a
punt, the Bulldogs went to-
ward the goal again, with
Hoffman making 6, DeWitt
24, Hoffman another yard,
then DeWitt went around
right end for Flatonia's
only touchdown. Max Stein
liaii.-iiiris kick with ileWii
Soil Conservation
Hearing October 15
The supervisors of the
Bastrop-Favette Soil Con-
servation District would lik"
to remind all interested
parties of the hearing that
the Texas State Conserva-
tion Board will have
Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the
Agricultural Building in La
Grange at 8:00 p. m.
This hearing will be pn,
the dissolution of the Bas-
trop-Fayette SCI) and‘the
creation of the Fayette
County Soil Conservation.
District.
Legion Picnic .
A Big Success
The American Legion's
annual picnic, held at the
Legion grounds Sunday, Oct.
6, was declared a huge suc-
cess. A large crowd enjoy-
ed various entertainment
features which were high-
lighted by the New Braun-
fels American Legion Band,
which is rated as one of the
nation’s^best.
The local post was great-
ly honored to have as visi-
tors, Commander Warren
C.. Moore, Department of
Texas, and .Service Officer
Fred Brookman, Depart-
ment of Texas. Both high-
ly praised the post and the
community for backing the
Post so well.
The regular meeting of
the American Legion and
ils Auxiliary unit will be
held Thursday night, Oct.
10, at 7:30 o’clock. A mem-
bership drive ®is underway
for the year 1958, and all
eljgiblit veterans and
families are invited and
urged to attend. Member-
ship in these worthwhile or-
ganizations offer pleasant
recreation and fellowship as
well as a chance to- serve
and improve our commun-
ity.*
holding was true to give the
Bulldogs the • extra : point.'
Flatonia once again had the
Rotary Club Notes-
This Is International
Letter Writing Week
International Letter Writ-
Miss Margaret Hanzelka
was maid of honor and Miss
Mary Edna Haecker * as
bridesmaid.
Jimmy Keach served as
best man and Johnny Han-
zelka of Houston as grooms-
man. Ushers were Norbert
Penshorn and Al Sandera.
The bride wore a gown of
Chantilly lace over satin. _
The empire bodice was fin-1 j,,g ”UVek'T' 'being cele-
ished with a Mandarin co!- 1)rat(,(1 jn Flatonia this week,
lar and long t a p e r i n g j postmaster Bludworth an-
sleeves. The skirt was bat- n‘(>unced today
lerina length. A crown of rnmme„iinff‘on the estab-
ace, pearls and sequins held | International
the illusion veil. Letter Writing Week, Mr.
She carried a white pray- J R,U(lworth pointed out that
er book adorned with or-1 ,,u.h vt,.u. siiu.e i o:58 the
chids.^ , t ! Post Office Department has
An all-day reception foi'^joined in tin* observance of
lowed in the Reethoven National Letter Writing
home. Misses Mary Anne | Week — an annual event
Anderwald and Gail PawliK | celebrat«*d to emphasize the
presided at the bridal book. ineaiiing ami value of letter
writing as a symbol of
A visiting Rotarian pres-
ent at last Friday’s meeting
ball fairly deep in Weimar 'of the Flatonia Rotary Club
was F. L. Herzik of Schul-
enburg.
Program was in charge of
Moe Klein, who presented a
student Rabbi, Mark Sha-
piro of Chicago, student at
the Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio, as the
speaker.
Since that day was the
eve of Yom Kippur, a Jew-
ish holy day, he compared
i ustifms and religion of the
Jewish people with others.
The speaker said that New
Year’s, recently observed,
according to the Hebrew
calendar, is the year 5718
and that the calendar is
very intricate, and dates
frpm the creation of the
world, according to ancient
Jewish customs. He closed
by answering a number of
questions.
territories the half ended.
The Weimar Wildcat,Band
performed nicely, as also
did the Flatonia Drill
Squad.
Punt exchanges were the
order of play to open - the
third period, until Weimar
started driving from their
30; the Wildcats made three
first downs, then Ifmtchins
went 30 yards to the left for
a touchdown. The point trv
failed and it was Flatonia 7.
Weimar 6: moments later,
Weimar intercepted a pass
and went to the Flatonia 25;
on! Carr threw a Wildcat'run-
ner for about a 7-yard loss,
but it proved to no avail, as
on the next play, Gilbreath
went through the entire Fla-
tonia defense and scored a
touchdown. The point was
good to make it 13-7 in fa-
vor of Weimar.
The Bulldogs tried hard to
get back into the game..in
the final period, mostly
through the air, but this at-
tack failed completely. They
did manage to hold Wei-
mar in check during this
quarter. Flatonia was stilt
trying to pass the ball for a
score, with the ball near
midfield as the game came
to a close. The final score
was Weimar 13, Flatonia 7.
Spectators considered th"
game a good ope to witness.
The locals have an open
date this Friday.
Weather Report
F. F. Pechacek Jr. reports
the following from last
week’s weather charts:
Temps.
Regular Meeting-
Held by Service Guild
IN HOSPITAL
A. L. Vrana is a patient
in the Wagner Hospital in
Shiner.
Moulton ODHS Sets
64th Anniversary
Members of the Sons of
Hermann Lodges in this dis-
trict will visit with the
Moulton Lodge Wednesday,
Oct. 16, to observe their
64th anniversary with their
annual Hallowe’en social at
the*Rock Inn Hall.
The Flatonia lodge will
be honored with a tribute at
9 p. m. The affair is open
to the public, and will offer
a nice program.
Subscribe to The Argus.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Mil-
ler1 of Muldoon visited with
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Best
Monday.
We are sorry to report
that Lee Roy Best is con-
fined to his bed with a light
stroke. We wish for him a
speedy recovery,
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Schacherl Jr. and Barbara
of Point Comfort visited
here over -the week-end
with relatives.
Mrs. B. E. Carr and Mrs.
G. W. Wiilliamson attend-
ed the Come and Take It
day parade in Gonzales last
Wednesday and also visit-
ed with Mrs. C. N. Helms
and Mrs. J. M. Kuykendall.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Krametbauer and Roy of
San Antonio and Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Nonmacher of
Waelder visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Glyn Johnson on
Sunday.
Locals & Personals
Jack Sundman of Texas
A&M College visited over
the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Agricola Jr.
and baby.
as a
American, freedom.
Son for Winklers
Mr. and Mrfi. Gilbert
Winkler of Columbus have
chosen the name of Robert
The Wetoeyan Service I CORRECTION
uiulti held its regular gath
Mrs. Henry Vanham and n V
son. Bill, of Moulton visit■ ■ [hhr“r^V
mar, Oct. 1. The baby
weighed five pounds, 13
ounces and is welcomed by
a sister, Carolyn Ann.
The grandmothers are
Mrs. Caroline Winkler of
Schulenburg and Mrs. R. J.
Walla of Flatonia.
ed with Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Duff Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Mitchell of San Antonio
visited with Mbs. A. H.
Bailey and Mrh.'" Virginia
Dockery Monday.
Mrs. H. L. Thulemeyer
and Miss Doris Burnett of
San Antonio spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. F. W.
Thulemeyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Mica and family of Hous-
ton were brief visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Mica
Sunda afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Freytag and children, Mrs.
Dora McCall and Miss
Emma Koch visited in
Kingsville over the week*
end with relatives
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hobi-
zal and family, Miss Betty
ering at the Methodist An-
nex Oct. 2 at 7:80 p. m.
The worship service was
given by Mrs. A. L. Ford,
assisted by Miss Beatrice
Kasper.
An interesting program
on missions in foreign coun-'
tries, the U. S., and Alaska,
was given by Mrs. C. C.
Wiseman, Mrs. I. P. Frey-
tag, and Mrs. Rudy Pavlas.
The training school for
Gtiild members that Was
held on Sept. 22, was well
attended even though the
bad weather kept many
from coming.
. The following towns had
Guild representatives at the
school: Austin, Columbus,
The names of Mr. and
Mrs. B. (’. Jenkins of San
Antonio were unintention-
ally omitted last week as
grandparents of the new son
of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Jen-
kins of Kingsville. We are
glad to make this correc-
tion.
Hobizal and George Hobi-
zal of Houstop spent Sun- ________^ _________
day with Mr. arid Mrs. Tom j Eagle Lake. Gonzales, ifa
unk».ni ( Grange, and Schulenburg.
Hobizal.
Recent'visitors of Mrs. F.
A. Nesrsta were: Mr. and
Mrs. F. Z. Nesrsta of San
Antonio, Mrs. Lester Gosch
and children and Mrs. Chas.
Blase and Donnie of Shreve-
port, La.
Interesting reports were
given by several members
telling of useful things
learned at the school.
Mrs, Marvin Firiger and
Mrs. A. L. Ford served de-
licious refreshments. _ ItiOQ Mfijjdfljk.
Miss Mary Klein and
Hugo Wehmeyer Jr. of
Houston visited over the
week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Hugo Wehmeyer Sr.
and Bobbie Jean.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kax-
mir of Yoakum visited with
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Urban
and sons Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs.’ Ervin
Steinhauser of Belaire visit-
ed over the week-end with
relatives.
Mrs. R. D. Zapalac, Mrs.
Edwin I*]. Zapalac -and
daughter accompanied Mrs.
Ervan Zouzalik and son to
their home in College Sty-
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