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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1958
Page
1
In Schulenburg a basketball banquet featured Father Laddie Jasek who urged nationwide attention to child guidance and respect for elders. He argued youth leadership depends on parental influence and education, proposing a school course on child guidance to shape future leaders.
The annual FFA and 4-H Project Show parade drew crowds along Front Street in Moulton with a lengthy march through the business district led by Parade Marshal Lee L Jarosek. Judges at Lions Field awarded top entries, including first place to Moulton Home Demonstration Club and various juvenile novelties, with the Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce sponsoring.
Premium winners in dairy cattle and hogs are listed with champions and prize amounts. Names include Calver Ben Darilek Davis Crawford Harvey Michna and Dennis Barta among others, with prizes from 3.00 to 17.50. See WINNERS page 3, column 3 for full results.
Friends and relatives mourn Hazael Steubing Johnson who died Sunday April 20 at 6 15 am in Shin er hospital after a brief illness. Born 1904 in Lavaca County he was son of Sam Johnson and the late Nan Steubing Johnson. He attended Moulton school and Texas School for Deaf in Austin. In 1928 he married Lena Delk at Bay City.
Eighteen candidates from Moulton Flatonia Hallettsville and Yoakum joined the First Degree in exemplification ceremonies in Yoakum last Thursday night. District Deputy Rudy Fuchs Cuero assisted with the degree and Edwin Darilek Shiner represented Shiner Moulton and Flatonia Councils. Moulton candidates included August Hilert Roman Zidek Victor Zidek and Robert Welff. Second and Third Degree work is tentatively scheduled for May with location yet to be decided.
The local FFA chapter welcomed State Vice President Dickie Rosenthal on Thursday April 17. He gave a talk marking the first visit by a state FFA official to the school.
Pauline Knopp of Galveston wife of former Moulton teacher Claude Knopp died at St Marys Infirmary in Galveston on March 23 after a lingering illness. She is survived by husband and two children Paul and Claudia. Mr Knopp manages American National Insurance in Galveston. Miss Knopp works in UTMB Anatomy. Paul attends Jesuit studies and has won NSF scholarships two years running in Boston at Harvard.
State Agriculture Commissioner John C. White delivered the principal talk on the importance of agriculture to the state and nation at a Farm Bureau event at the VFW Hall last Thursday night. About 200 people from Farm Bureau groups attended, the report notes.
Rev. Laddie Jasek principal speaker at the Schulenburg Bobkatz Bobkittens banquet urged parents to train children to respect elders. He noted many youths lack respect and cited a six grader calling his father my old man. The April 16 event at the high school honored the teams and featured an invocation and barbecue lunch.
Dr. FE A Sagebiel, president of Texas Lutheran College at Seguin, spoke to high school students and PTA members in the auditorium about the importance of preparing for an ever changing world in a talk titled Why Go to College. A brief business meeting followed before adjournment.
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