The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1955 Page: 1 of 12
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Henry Mica of Flatonia; W. C.
Krebs, Leslie H. Cordes, Ed. L.
Hruska, Norbert Meinschen, P.
L. Bumside, Werner K. Kellers
and Harold L. Trumbill of Fay-
etteville; Mrs. Siddie Knutzen,
of Round Top; Mrs. Wilton Wel-
shuhn of Ledbetter; C. M. Mu-
ras, Edmund Mazoch, Maurice
I^evin, Milam Docekal, Steve A.
Hajovsky, Anton J. Havelka,
Morris F. Zapalac and Albert
Cemosek of La Grange.
Two ladies are included in the
list and, if selected, may be the
first in Fayette County to serve
on a petit Jury. Several ladies
were called previously but were
PICTURED above is Pvt. John
Sommer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Sommer of La Grange.
Pvt. Sommer entered the service
for a two-year term in August
of 1954. He received his basic
training at Ft. Bliss and at Fort
Ord in San Francisco, Calif.
Pvt. Sommer is now stationed
in Berlin where he has been re-
cently transferred into Hq. and
Hq. Co. He was made Instructor
of brass in the Drum and Bugle
Corps.
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Jurors Named For
May 18 Trial
District Clerk Ike J. Petras
released a list of 36 jurors who
have been called to report for
duty on Wednesday, May 19, at
9 AM. On the court docket is
the civil case styled Letty
Munke vs. Alfred Carby, a suit
for damages.
A Jury will be selected for the
hearing from the list composed
of Herbert J. Kloesel, Edgar F.
Anders, Victor Dreitner, Joe G.
Havrda, Leo C. Heinrich, Leo
J. Schmidt, Fred Bacha and
Frank A. Cemosek of Schulen-
burg; Oscar E. Carlson and
Clyde F. Young of West Point;
not picked to serve on a panel.
Mrs. Edna Keilers and Nelson
E. Krause of Carmine; M. E.
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THE LITTLE GERMAN BAND will be a featured attraction when the La Grange High
School Band presents the Variety Show Friday night Left to right the musicians ar® Ruby
Pet ruse k, Henry Vitek, Lee Mueller, Gerald Gause, Jo Helen Cronenberger and Clement Janak,
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R. John’s Catholic High School in Fayett
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Relative Td County Clerk’s Statement
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For S1686.50
From Clerk
by L. A. DUEWALL
The Fayette County Commis-
sioners Court did an “about
face” here in session Monday
and Tuesday. They reversed
(their previous stand in the mat-
ter of allowing overtime pay in
the County Clerk’s office.
On April 4th the Court order-
ed the County Clerk present a
sworn statement explaining the
absence of $1686.50 showing
that it was paid to his clerks
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The Journal’s Guest Column this week is written by tiur
Board of Supervisors of the Bastrop-Fayette Soil Conservation
District The supervisors include Poy Bucek, chairman; Max
Plentl, vice chairman; Paul Carlson, seqtetary-treasurer and Earl
Callihan «A1 Otto ?. Tiedt. S*- ~
8OU., CONSERVATION WEEK
Son Conservation Week, May 9th through 15th, is a time lot
every American, and especially farmers, to take Inventory of the
land and realise that individually and as a nation, we mutt safe-
guard our soli or perish.
Not many people realise that our very existence depends,
directly upon a thin layer of topsoil and average dept of only
seven inches! With erosion and soil depletion constantly at work
the understanding and application of soli conservation to the land
Is of primary Importance to each of us.
What is Soil Conservation? It is basically a practical plan to
use each acre to the best advantage according to its limitations,
and capabilities. It means protecting land against all forms of
soil deterioration and it means rebuilding eroded and depleted soft
Why is the need for soil conservation so imperative? History
has shown that the hightiest conqueror and devourer of nations
has not been war or political theories but Soil Erosion! Through
seven thousand years the evidence is there for us to read—na-
tions fell and some vanished because under their poor farming
methods and exploitation the topsoil was destroyed.
We fail to recognize and do something about this disease of
agriculture because its first symptoms are as impreceptable as
creeping paralysis.
We have about 460 million acres of land in our country that
are suitable for crops. MORE THAN 300 MILLION ACRES OF
FARM FIELDS ARE NOW ERODING FASTER THAN SOIL IS
BEING FORMED BY NATURE.
Most of our production comes from sloping lands where the
hazard of soil erosion is ever present, and it is cm this kind of
land that the greatest threat to our existence is constantly at
work. SHEET EROSION! That’s the danger point. It is an In-
sidious enemy devouring YOUR land and mine—stealing it away
in front of our very eyes, sheets of soil at a time, rain by rain,
washing it down into the streams and out to the sea. SHkET
EROSION, marked by shallow but numberless rills in our fields,
and blotted out by each plowing.
Do you know that the measurements of the silt carried out
to sea by the Mississippi River are further evidence of this ero-
sion process? Every hour of the day the amount of silt deposited
in the mouth of this mighty river is the equivalent of the top
soil, one foot deep, from 40 acres of land. Erosion experiment
stations located throughout the country give us accurate data.
Measurements through five years at the Statesville, N.C., ero-
sion experiment station show that on an 8 per cent slope, land
in follow without cropping lost EACH YEAR an average of 29
per cent of rainfall in immediate runoff and 64 tons of soil per
acre in wash-off soil This means that in 18 yean, 7 indies of sod
(the average dept of topsoil) would be washed away. Under con-
tinuous cropping to cotton, as was once the general practice to
this region, the land lost 10 per cent of rainfall and 22 tons of
soil per acre per year. At thia rate it would take 44 years to
erode away 7 inches of soil. Rotations reduced (but did not stop)
erosion, because the land lost 9 per cent of the rain and enough
soil so that it would take 109 years to erode away 7 inches of solL
This is a very short tim® in the Ute of our Nation. But where tips
land was kept in grass, it lost less than 1 per cent of rain andao
little soil that would take 96,000 year* to wash away 7 inches
of soil. This erosion rate is certainly no faster than soft la formed
by nature.
Here we have the underlying hazard of civilization, c&MUS
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La Grange Markets
Middling Cotton 33c
Eggs, Grade A 34c
Eggs, Grade B 28c
Pullet Eggs 20c
Eggs, Grade C 15c
Hens 14c
Roosters - 10c
Sweet Cream:
Direct shippers
Station
Sour Cream:
Direct shippers
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Seville will be held Sun-
day, May 22, at 8 PM in the St. John’s Church at Fayetteville. Members of the 1955 sehior7 class are, top row, left to right,
Verline Novasad, Daniel T. Schmidt, Evelyn Bertsch, Hugo Mascheck and Jeanell Krenek; and bottom row, left to right,
Jerry A. Noska, Florian Brokmeyer, Lenert L. Zapalac, Mary Ann Plwetc and James G. Wostarek.
THE JOURNAL’S
GUEST COLUMNIST
for other counties and that up-
on the presentation of such a
Browne of the Travis Street statement, the Court would ap-
--- ____ prove it.
In session Monday and Tues-
day the Court, upon a motion
made by Commissioner R. A.
Pietsclf and seconded by Com-
missioner Wallace Cherry, or-
dered the April 4th order re-
voked. Th® voting was as fol-
lows:
Commissioners voting aye:
'Commissioner R. A. Pietsch,
Commissioner Wallace Cherry,
Commissioner Hubert Heller,
fc. Commissioners voting no:
Commissioner Victor Homuth.
The order further accepted
the check of the County Clerk
in the amount.of $1,686.50 ten-
Fayette County Gets Million
Collar Rain Wednesday Morning
It was good news for Fayette
, , , County early Wednesday moul-
dered to the County as toll pay- Jn when llfe-gtving rains
poured down to help the parched
earth rejuvenate itself. The
rain, which put hope back into
Fayette County farmers and
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J. R. JACKSON RECEIVES
ACCLAIM AT A ft M
J. R. Jackson, former voca-'
tional agriculture instructor
here and now with the Agri-
cultural Education Department
at Texas A & M College, was
named professor of the month
for outstanding work in his de-
partment.
A story of the Aggie profes-
sor and his accomplishments ap-
peared in the April issue of
business people, cam® at the
most propitious time. A week
later would have been almost
too late, according to reports.
The rainfall averaged around
an inch or better over most of
the Fayette County area. How-
ever, the West Point and Plum
area, unofficially received only
about an eighth of an inch. Haw
Creek and Round Top area
farmers reported as much as
3.7” of rain.
La Grange and surrounding
area got 1.03” and one farmer
who lives toward Round Top re-
ported a 3” rain.
The Fayefteville-Ellinger area
reported an unofficial inch of
rainfall, according to Edwin
Hoelscher. However, Mr. Hoel-
scher stated that the amount re-
ported varied from % of an
inch to of an inch. One re-
port stated that 4 miles away
3.5” fell.
Mrs. Florence Bosl, publisher
of the Schulenburg Sticker, re-
ported .9” in Schulenburg; about
1^4” east toward Weimar; and
about .9” north toward Swiss
Alp.
The rain was sorely needed In
all parts of the County and all
day Wednesday the favorite top-
ic of conservation was the rain.
It provided much needed water
for crops, pastures and gardens.
Albert Marburger of the Haw
Creek community reported 3.7”.
He stated that the rain started
falling at 1:30 a.m. and that it
rained until morning.
ment of the Lavaca and Guad-
alupe County photostatic work
accounts.
The toll text of the order is
as follows: “On motion made by
Coromr. Pietsch, seconded by
Commr. Cherry, it is ordered
that the order of the court of
April 4th relative to statement
by County Clerk be revoked
apd that the check of the Coun-
ty Clerk in the amount of $1,-
686.50 tendered to the county be
accepted as full payment of the
Lavaca and Guadalupe County
photostatic work accounts. Car-
ried.”
• In other business the commis-
sioners made the quarterly in-
spection of the County Jail and
County Poor Farm and both
were found satisfactory. The
County Treasurer’s report was
approved.
Reports of County and Pre-
cinct officers was approved.
L. P. Sturgeon, director of
public relations for the Texas
State Teachers Association and
former assistant commissioner
of education, will deliver the
commencement address on Fri-
day, May 27, for the graduating
senior -class of La Grange High
School. The exercises will be
held on the Leopard Field and
will begin at 8 PM.
The program, still subject to
last minute changes, was an-
nounced Wednesday by Supt. C.
A. Lemmons and is as follows:
Processional — La Grange
High School Band.
Invocation—Rev. A. J. Lock-
hart of the St. James Episcopal
Church.
Welcome address
Faye Koenig.
Awarding of medals to honor
students—Principal H. C. Giese.
Graduating address— L. P.
Sturgeon of Austin.
Presentation of seniors for
graduation—Supt. C. A. Lem-
mons.
Presentation of diplomas—F.
R. Dykes, president of the school
board.
Farewell address — Frank
Giesber, president, of the senior
class. ' ’ -j.' ,
Pledge of allegiance to flag
led by Jack Schwake.
Benediction — Rt. Rev. Msgr.
S. A. Zientek of the Sacred
Heart Catholic Church.
Recessional—La Grange High
School Band.
Baccalaureate services will be
Virginia Mika
Is Chosen As
Band Drum Major
The drum majorette and
twlrlers of the La Grange High
School Band were selected by
Oren Johnson, the band director
at Columbus, and Everett
Schmidt, Giddings band direc-
tor, on April 29.
Virginia Mika was chosen as
the new drum majorette to sec-
ceed Lillian Hagens and will
lead the high school band dur-
ing the coming season. Miss
Hagens is a member of the 1955
graduating class.
Joanne Baca, head twlrler and
also a senior, will be replaced
by Camille Freytag. Betty Muel-
ler was selected as assistant
drum majorette.
The new twlrlers for the next
year are Marilyn Jurajda, a
sophomore; and Elva Ann Mein-
ers, a freshman. Judy Welkel
and Jean Foyt are the return-
ing twirlers.
Lion’s Minstrel
Staged Twice
This Week
The La Grange Lions Club
Minstrel Show will be st aged in
Fayetteville Thursday night, Behnke of Burton; J. E. Michal
May 12, at 8 p.m. at the High rsu*—u
School Gymnasium. The pro-
ceeds of the show will be diveded
between the Fayetteville School
Athletic Club and the La Grange
Lions Club.
The Show, which played La
Grange twice and also in Car-
mine, went to Hallettsville
Tuesday night for a perform-
ance there. The proceeds of the
Hallettsville Show went to the
Hallettsville High School Band
and the La Grange Lions Club.
At its regular meeting Tues-
day noon the Club heard the
Rev. Robert T. Browne, pastor
of Travi* Street Methodist
Church, sing and talk about the
Impact of popular music on re-
ligious music.
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erosion by water or by wind or both. Escape to new land I* ho
longer a way out We must find out how to etsablish peTTnaxMHit ' ‘
agriculture on our farms under cultlzation before they aHr
aged beyond reclamation, and before the food supply of a gTOWt
population becomes deficient. The answer Use tn dM
according to its capabilities and giving eac^B^^L^
ment It needs to protect it from erosion and to
prove it.
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COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES for the graduating class of St.
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VOLUME LXXVI LA fmANGE, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAlpMAY 12, 1956 Z NUMBEK
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GEORGE BRANDT, member of the La Grange Future Farm-
ers of America Chapter, was named winner of the tractor
operator’s contest held last Wednesday. The local contest was
sponsored by the La Grange Tractor and Implement Com-
pany and entered by six chapters in Lee and Fayette coun-
ties. Left to right are Carroll Smith, local chapter advisor;
George Brandt; and Leo Frede ofthe tractor firm under
whose supervision the contest was held.
Shirgeon Will Be Speaker At ~
Commencement Exercises May 27
held Sunday, May 22, at 8 PM
in the high school gymnasium.
The following program was an-
nounced by Supt. Lemmons: .
Recessional — Miss Jeanette
Alexander, at the piano.
Invocation—Rev. J. F. Jenson
of the First Baptist Church.
Scripture—Rev. H. T. Flach-
meier of the St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church. r
Song by congregation—What for extra overtime work done
A Friend We Have In Jesus.
Sermon — Rev. Robert T.
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Methodist Church.
Benediction—Rev. F. E. Eil-
ers of the Philadelphia Lutheran
Church.
Recessional — Miss
Alexander.
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Duewall, L. A. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1955, newspaper, May 12, 1955; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1254994/m1/1/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.