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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1947
Page
3
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Barney Davis, cashier at Central Power and Light, is being transferred to the Corpus Christi office. Mrs. Davis and their son Davey will stay in Eagle Lake until housing is found. Davis joined C P and L in Eagle Lake in 1930s. he left for the Army in 1942, was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1946, and returned to Eagle Lake personnel duties.
The Eagle Lake School Band will march in Bay City for the Rice Festival parade on the second day, October with an expected crowd of 35 000. The group of about 40 students from fifth grade through high school travels by new school bus and performs at a Friday game in Bastrop. Band leadership includes Reagan Laughlin as president and Mary Elizabeth Davidson as secretary treasurer, with Jean Linke handling publicity.
The Garwood Gars blanked the Orchard Badgers 32 to 20 in a six man football game at Orchard Friday afternoon before a large crowd. Garwood opened with a safety by Dave Hunt and James Houser, then Lundquist and John Perry scored for a 14 6 halftime lead. John Perry added another Garwood TD in the third quarter as Orchard answered with two more scores to make it 20 20, before Garwood recovered a fumble for a fourth quarter TD and Anthony Kallina sealed the win with a late score.
Football in district 19, including Hungerford Garwood Orchard and Wallis, opened Sept. 26 with Wallis defeating Hungerford 40 to 6 and Garwood beating Orchard 32 to 20. Garwood and Wallis meet Saturday at 2 30 pm while Hungerford faces Garwood. Miss Bernice Gertson and John Tanner Goode visit from out of town. local students home for weekend.
The Eagle Lake School cafeteria will sell $5.00 monthly meal tickets for student lunches. Unused funds roll over to the next month, refunds applied to future tickets. The program helps parents manage exact change as cafeteria serves about 175 meals daily, with expectations of higher numbers in winter.
The Tri-County Council of Jewish Women holds its first Weimar meeting on Wednesday October 15 at Mrs Manny Lauterstein's home. Members are invited. The year’s project funds a complete hospital room for Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation in Gonzales Texas. Past project of donating book shelves to city hospitals is completed. High Holidays services were at Hallettsville led by Emmett Frank of Houston a Seminary student in Cincinnati Ohio. Sunday school begins this Sunday at Mrs Hirsch Schwartz's home in Schulenburg.
Johnnie Kallina of Garwood is praised for steering the El Campo Rice Birds as assistant coach. A three sport letterman at Greenville High, he starred in football, track, and basketball. He later played at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, earned a 1940 physical education degree, coached in Kerrville, served in the Navy, and then coached Ball High before joining El Campo.
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