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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1958
Page
6
Lucile Lartermiere recalls Sheriff Turbiville praising Walter Millican for clean courthouse grounds in July heat. Kerr County Chamber seeks nonperishable Llano products for the Texas Friendship Flight to Alaska. Enchanted Rock, livestock, scenery, and wildlife celebrate Llano's assets. City Park hosts growing family reunions.
The Llano County FFA chapter won first place in a state livestock judging contest sponsored by Farm and Ranch Magazine. The top prize included a 180 ampere arc welder presented to Billy Harve Reager, chapter president. Advisor Eugene Russell received Justin boots.
Field Creek farmer Foster Casner markets watermelons commercially. He grows 15 varieties on 30 acres, shipped 12 loads and expects 20 by season end. Largest melons weigh 88 pounds and 87 pounds with circumferences of about a yard. Casner uses his own trucks for hauling profit and sells melons at 10 cents per pound. He has been growing melons commercially for about 15 years.
Fitzsimons Little League clinched the second half and the season title with an 18 2 record after only one loss in each half. Lions Club finished in second place with an 8 7 mark as the season wrapped up.
Aubrey Merkel remains in Llano jail following a Friday shotgun shooting of his brother Roy Merkel near the Llano stockyards. Arrested in Fort Worth Saturday, he was returned Sunday to Llano. An examining trial is pending. Roy Merkel is treated at Llano Memorial Hospital then Temple McCloskey Hospital. condition not critical.
About ten local merchants attend a special training course on modern credit and collection techniques. The last session of Retail Credit Procedures will be held tonight at the Hotel Llane at 7 30 led by Lowry M. Carpenter from the University of Texas.
Rev. James R. Sheppard of the Highland Lakes Larger Parish and Rev. Milton E. Mayer of St James Evangelical Lutheran Church completed an interdenominational Church and Community Workshop. The program ran from July 1 at Emory University in Atlanta with 125 ministers and church workers from eight denominations and sixteen states.
A heat wave and continued lack of rainfall are drying pastures and farm crops in the county. The last recorded rainfall in Llano was the weekend of July 6 with .68 inches officially reported. Spring rains had grown abundant grass, keeping pasturelands in reasonable condition for now.
The Llano Masonic Lodge will host the Masters Wardens and Secretaries Association of the 4th District Monday night at 8 Pm July 28 in the school cafeteria. All Master Masons and their wives are invited to attend.
Violators paid 3049 dollars in fines during the January to June 1958 period in Morrison's Justice of the Peace court FE 8. January yielded the most at 36 fines, February and March combined 33, followed by 29 in April, 25 in May, and 28 in June. Morrison noted eight violations written and five fines collected over the most recent weekend.
Arthur Ahrens Erwin Light and Raymond Walker of Llano attend the 29th annual Firemen's Training School to be held July 2025 at Texas A M College. The program, run by State Firemen's Fire Marshals' Association of Texas and Engineering Extension Service, aims to train about 1 500 firefighters from 435 Texas cities with pump maintenance courses and a training firm.
Work on the Llano City dam is scheduled to begin again in the near future. City utilities manager R. Wy. Derrick announced this week that preliminary work will start Monday. A new coffer dam to divert water must be built and the area cleaned before construction can begin, likely in a week to ten days.
On July 1 the Texas Department of Public Safety issued new Texas Tan uniforms for three divisions. The lightweight summer shirt and pants with jackets for winter differ from the old metropolitan style and will be worn by License and Weight Driver License and Motor Vehicle Inspection staff. Highway Patrolmen switch in 1959. The outfit features straw hats in summer and creased felt hats in winter with black leather gun belts and shoes, and shoulder patches identify the service. Lt. Max Davis and daughter of El Paso visited Mrs. Sagebiel. Mrs. Davis is her sister.
The Llano All Stars lost 23 to 9 to Hill Country League in Tuesday night action at the local field. Llano pitchers Glen Neid and Randy Leifeste struggled while Hill Country pitchers Myers and Dixon shut them down. Randy Leifeste had Llano’s only homer. Brizendine scored for Hill Country. Randolph Leifeste presides over Highland Lakes Little League with coaches Bill Shipp and Bob Tate.
Politicking in Texas intensifies as the Democratic primary nears with candidates for state senator and state representative sharpening campaigns. Harold Kennedy Sylvester Lewis Joe Swanner Louis Crump contend for the Senate while Terry Townsend Glen Randolph Edward Verlander and Wilbur Aflen vie for the House. Llano County residents expected to turn out in strong numbers.
Two Llano County residents Carmen Cornelius 17 and Jackie Ligon 16 will compete for Miss Mohair in Fredericksburg July 31 representing Llano Junior Chamber of Commerce and Llano Chamber of Commerce. Cornelius is Llano High School senior and former Band Sweetheart. Ligon is a Llano High School junior and past rodeo queen and pep squad cheerleader.
Recent visitors at Winkel's Polled Hereford Ranch include John Fuller of Bellefontaine Ohio who selected four bull calves for the Cf Knowlton Polled Hereford Farm. Charles M Brown of the 4B Ranch Tallulah Louisiana took two bull calves. Don Reynolds of the PR Hereford Ranch Pillsburg Texas took a heifer calf. A bull was sold to JW Baker Burnet and another to FE Liebold Pipe Creek. Twenty heifer calves went to Circle J Ranch Grocshack.
R V Derrick city utilities manager attended a Central Texas Municipal Utilities Institute session at the LCRA building in Austin. The meeting discussed promoting sale of electric heating and heat pump systems to balance winter and summer electrical loads and heard talks on future electrical growth.
The Southwest Texas Methodist Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service will host the State School of Missions at Mt Wesley Methodist Assembly Kerrville from Monday August 4 to Friday August 8. Co chairing are Mrs C Herman Murph of Devine and Rev Richard K Heacock Jr of Juneau Alaska formerly Llano. Heacock just returned from a three year church assignment in Juneau on furlough. Mrs Richard Heacock of Austin serves as secretary of children's work.
Mr. McWilliams of Fredericksburg spoke to Llano Lions Club at their noon luncheon about the Central Texas Electric Co op management, its challenges and achievements since organization. He outlined future plans and noted the 1958 annual membership meeting will be in Llano, with 1957 held in Mason and earlier ones at the Fredericksburg fairgrounds. Introduced by T. D. Swenson, the program chairman.
Admissions for the week include W. Tatseh Mrs. Joe Siebers Mrs. Dillon Wooten Nolan Maddox Chico Delgado Roy Merkel and several others led by Mrs. Margie Lowe FW Tatsch Mrs. August Reese and Mrs. Lawrence Light. Names repeat with Wilma Fay Patterson Clara Jane Patterson and others.
Sergeant G E Simmons reports Blanco Burnet Llano Lampasas San Saba Mills and McCulloch counties had 22 accidents in June 1958. Property damage 15 cases. personal injury 7. fatalities none. property loss 12005 dollars with 10 injuries. Decrease from May 1958.
Adm. FH. H. McLean, Llano native and superintendent for the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, led ceremonies marking the first commercial vessels passing the Magdsna locks in New York. The Seaway locks and ship channel now operate ahead of schedule amid weekend crowds, as McLean had left Llano last spring to take the post while his family stayed through the Llano school term.
R V Derrick has earned the Professional Engineer license from the State Board of Registration of Professional Engineers. He has been Llano city utilities manager since May 1956 after teaching at Tarleton State College and serving in the Army during World War II.
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