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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1962
Page
1
A girl recalls two weeks at Lions Camp with activities across crafts, swimming, and unit participation. She earned an arts and crafts outstanding camper award, joined the camper choir, helped lead stories and games, and enjoyed campsites, pow wow, chapels, talent show, circus banquet, and a water show, thanking the Lions Club for funding.
H E Romack is noted for long service with the Selective Service System. He helped conduct the first registration at Katy during World War I and has since registered all local youths as they turned 18 in Harris Ft. Bend and Waller counties. The 1962 certificate, dated March 26, is signed by President John F Kennedy with state officials listed.
Construction on the Brookshire Katy Drainage District warehouse office is set to start this month after the June 12 meeting awarded the 49 by 80 foot metallic building to Rapsilver and Co. Moore and Son will pour the foundation slab and Joe K Moore Electric Co. will handle wiring. Interior finish work awaits contract.
West Side Grocery announces a Leadway Food Stores cooperative effort with independent merchants. Saturday will feature open cans and packages of Leadway brand foods to display quality and value for customers. Lloyd Ernstes and staff invite shoppers to visit.
Dozier Farm Equipment Co. holds a summer clearance sale of used equipment this week with three days left. Edward Dogies notes remaining grand prizes and a Saturday drawing for a coal tractor with spare parts. free refreshments run 11:30 to 2. Attendance not required to win.
A Katy Furniture advertisement drew lively shopper interest with prizes and weekly gifts. Rosemary Harold won the first attendance prize last Saturday and received a buffet patio server, while other customers noted attractive merchandise and a full sale lineup lasting through the period.
Jack M. Townsend has been employed as Cashier by the Katy National Bank replacing E. Ray Warren who resigned to join West Columbia National Bank as Executive Vice President. Townsend, born and raised in Forney Texas, moved with his wife Mae Barnes and their three children to Katy last week and attends a Baptist church.
Funeral rites for Emil Christine Matzke were conducted at Schmidt Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 p.m. Sunday with Nev A C Niemann presiding. Interment followed in Pattison Methodist Cemetery. Matzke, born January 18 1875 in Spring Branch, died after months of illness at Ft Bend Nursing Home. He married Emma Wieczyn in 1907. they would have marked 65 years of marriage next month. They lived in the Wyattison community for 40 years, moving there from Cy Sec.
A Babe Ruth game at Katy School Field benefits the Texas Warm Springs Foundation. The Katy team hosts two guest players and seeks community support for the rehabiliated Center. Funds aim to aid rehabilitation services and the foundation's work.
Over the weekend three separate accidents near Katy left one man dead and several injured. A GL International truck tractor and semi trailer struck a bridge at Snake Creek on Highway 90, the vehicle breaking into four parts. The driver Carl Lenard Webster 44 and a passenger were treated for injuries. A second crash involved a car off a narrow ditch near Katy injuring Montie Wood and Betsy Harmon who were aided by Mr. Ira Southard and transported for treatment. A Columbus man died and a Houston woman was injured when a seven passenger car ran off U S 90 east of Katy early Sunday morning.
The Katy Dads Club hosts a barbecue on Saturday June 30 at VFW Park to raise funds for Katy Little League. Tickets cost $1 for adults and 50 cents for children with all-you-can-eat plates from 11 30 am to 7 pm and grab‑and‑go plates available. Club officers include QO FE Dusts Rhoads president and Walter L. Mims vice president. board members Bill Thurman Leonard Jordan Ed Tillerson Gus Cummings Sid Creech Ven Scroggins. The group aims to liquidate a $300 debt from lights installation.
The Brookshire Municipal Water District bought a main-line sewer cleaner from Utility Supply in Houston for 31100 last Wednesday. It marks the district’s first owned rooter, shifting away from contract-based sewer clean outs for its water lines.
Schier Feed to present Purina award calf Friday at 4 to F Lyons in Brookshire free gift honoring one of 40 recipients in the United States. A Purina Ralston Co representative will present the registered Holstein heifer calf on June 22 at Schier Feed and Supply Co. public invitation extended. Lyons received notice by telegram in April that his card was selected in the promotion.
Monday night at 7 30 the Katy ball park hosts a softball league signup open to Katy FFA and Young Farmers members plus Katy High School alumni and community adults. Plans call for 16 teams of 17 players, six week season starting June 25 with doubleheaders each Monday night.
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