Edward Mika Found Dead Near Hallettsville
Edward Mika 38 was found dead by hanging from a tree about three miles north of Hallettsville after a days long search. He had been despondent and previously told his wife he would be where she could not find him. He was a mechanic employed by Kallus Motor Sales. Justice of the Peace Oscar Shoemake ruled death by hanging. He was born November 25 1914 and married Alma Haas in 1940.
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Edward Mika
Hallettsville
Mika
Justice of the Peace
Oscar Shoemake
Kallus Motor Sales
Novohrad
Alma Haas
Weimar
Schulenburg
Sealy
Wallis
Water worries and legislative aims in Texas winter
Wet winter grips this state while western Texas suffers drought like conditions. Bills to fund water conservation and dam construction are proposed as experts warn groundwater cannot be replenished. Cattle prices rise with more beef imports while cotton growers face potential 12.5 million bale targets and possible restrictions. Austin delays on auto inspection as debates on optometry price boards heat up.
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Texas
Arizona Desert
Cool Gasoline They Want Cold Gasoline Hearing At Austin
Senator Gus Strauss reports on a Austin hearing where a bill would require bulk dealers to sell gasoline at 60 degrees. About 1000 attended. bill sent to subcommittee. Other notes cover taxes, banking closures, breath tests, minor child support reform, and numerous bills and constitutional amendments.
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Strauss
Austin
Gus Strauss
15Th Senatorial District
Senate Committee On Oil and Gas
Senate Banking Committee
Committee On
Red Cross Month Drives County Fund Appeals
The Red Cross drive in the county is now progressing and residents will be contacted for contributions this month. Contributions may be left at the Farmers and Merchants State Bank, said William Miculka, local Red Cross chairman, on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red
Crgs
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
William Miculka
Red Cross
Yorktown Area Sunday School Teachers Meet at Nordheim
Mr. Henry Lucke and a group of teachers and pastors attended the Yorktown Area Sunday School Teachers Meeting held at Nordheim on Sunday afternoon March 1. About 135 teachers registered, and a memorial service honored Mrs. K. Windecker for thirty-two years of Sunday School work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lucke
Mesdames H. R. Albrecht
Tom Beale
Henry Helweg
R. L. Scott
Helen Kaase
Juanita Rothbauer
Helen Mueller
Yorktown Area
Nordheim
Yorktown
K. Windecker
Head of Household Use Form 1040
Director R L Phinney says many married persons in his district incorrectly use the Head of Household rate on 1952 tax returns. The rate applies only to unmarried filers under specific instructions and offers about half the benefits of joint filing. Misuse leads to costly corrections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
R. L. Phinney
Phinney
Farm Bureau Holds Regular Meeting at VFW Hall
The Moulton Farm Bureau met at the VFW Hall on February 26 with chairman Herman Hanslik presiding. Topics included high priced labor and fly control. County Agent Jack Lindsey presented pruning fruit trees. Adolf Gaertner won the door prize donated by Frank Hanslik.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton Farm Bureau
VFW Hall
Herman Hanslik
Jack Lindsey
Frank Hanslik
Adolf Gaertner
Legion Post Plans Family Barbecue On March Fifteen
In a Tuesday meeting the American Legion finalized plans for a family barbecue set for March 15. Prospective members and Korean veterans are invited, with members and families urged to attend. Post Commander Wm Miculka initiated nine new members during a special ceremony as about 40 people attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Wm Miculka
Komensky PTA to Meet Thursday
The Komensky PTA will hold its regular meeting on Thursday night March 5 at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Komensky Pta
Kopecky Rites At Praha Cemetery
A long time Fay ette County resident Mrs Innocence Kopecky 76 of Engle died at John Sealy Hospital Galveston Wednesday. Funeral services were held Friday from Schwenke Baumgarten Funeral Home Schulenburg and continued at the Catholic Church in Praha with interment in Praha Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette County
Innocence Kopecky
Engle
John Sealy
Galveston
Schwenke-Baumgarten
Schulenburg
Praha
Lavaca district soil mapping extends to 1953 farms
During January eleven farms totaling 1419 acres in Lavaca Soil Conservation District were mapped by a Soil Scientist. The surveys located south and southwest of Hallettsville in the sandy Blackland area. Each farm’s soil conditions will guide future conservation plans and classifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavaca
Lavaca Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service
Soil Conservation District
Hallettsville
Sandy Blackland
Dick Coffee
Branecky Rites Held for Flatonia Resident
Jerry J. Branecky 56 died February 24 at Wagner Hospital Shiner after a week’s illness. He farmed near Flatonia and Moulton. Services were at Smith Funeral Home Flatonia with a Sacred Heart Church Mass and a Czech sermon by Msgr. Jos. Pustka. He leaves a widow Rosie Kubenka and many children, grandchildren, and relatives.
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Jerry J. Branecky
Wagner Hospital
Shiner
Gonzales County
Rosie Kubenka
St. Joseph's Church
Moulton
Flatonia
Smith Funeral Home
Sacred Heart Church
V. A. Raska
Msgr. Jos. Pustka
Yoakum
Flatonia Catholic Cemetery
Brewery Convention Attendees From Shiner Attend in San Antonio
Anton Faltisek a local Shiner and Star distributor and Peet attended the Lone Star Brewery Convention in San Antonio on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Faltisek
Shiner
E Star
Peet
Lone Star Brewery
San Antonio
Lower Draft Calls in Texas See April Quota Dip
Texas draft notices show April call slightly lower than March with 2 876 men to be inducted, down by 113. Local boards receive March quotas the first week of March, while April examination quotas were dispatched Tuesday. In Austin the House voted to delay the car inspection issue for two more weeks after long debate.
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Austin
Texas
Selective Service
Paul L. Wakefield
House of Representatives
Wst
Calhoun County Navigation District
Victoria County Navigation District
Corps of Engineers
Home Demonstration Agent Attends Athens Laboratory
Callie Izora Werth attends the 1953 Longhorn Recreation Laboratory in Athens Texas at the Christian Youth Foundation Camp February 15 22. About seventy leaders from Farm Bureau Camp Fire Girls Girl Scouts Home Demonstration Clubs and Extension Service participate with resource people from across the state teaching photograph news service leather and wood painting metal craft music party planning ceramics square and folk dancing camp crafts outdoor cooking game leadership silk screening nature study and outdoor games. Lavaca County Farm Bureau sponsors Miss Callie Izora Werth’s trip.
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Callie Izora Werth
Longhorn Recreation Laboratory
Christian Youth Foundation
Athens
Texas
Farm Bureau
Camp Fire Girls
Girl Scouts
Bills Aim to Conserve Texas Water Resources
Governor Shivers and a statewide Committee of 100 with five subcommittees have shaped eight House bills to implement agreed water policies. The Senate backs a bill by Senator John Bell to fund a state dam program through current water user charges, seeking a constitutional amendment.
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Shivers
House
Eigt
Citizens
Senate
John Bell
Cuero
Proper Markers For Texas Heroes
Senator John Bell proposes a bill to provide proper markers for forgotten graves of Texas Revolution heroes. A Texas Revolution Memorial Commission would be created to oversee the effort. Senator Gus Strauss Representative Fred Niemann and Cheatham cooperated on the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
John Bell
Texas Revolution Memorial Commission
Gus Strauss
Fred Niemann
Cheatham
Texas GI Vote Proposal Clears House Panel
A Texas constitutional amendment to allow regular Army Navy Marines and Air Force members who were Texas residents before enlistment to vote squeaked through a House committee 8 to 6. The proposal targets servicemen and servicewomen voting rights in Texas.
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Austin
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Texas
House
Gus Dziadek Home On Leave From USS Lake Champlain
Airman 1st Class Gus Dziadek Jr. spends leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Gus Dziadek. He is serving aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Lake Champlain.
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Gus Dziadek
Gus Dziadek Jr
Gus
Lake Champlain
Legacy of Stonewall Pioneers Across Old Texas Farms
Directly east of Culak's farm lay the Dr Spears York land now Alois Zidek Clover Honey Farm. York, a Civil War veteran, moved from Mississippi with Annie Johnson after the war and built a family that included five living children and two sons who died in Spur and Spofford. The Bell and Thompson families are noted as prominent pioneers, with burials in Stonewall Cemetery and old homesteads still occupied by descendants.
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Rose Helweg
Culak
Spears York
Alois Zidek
Dr.York
Texas
Mississippi
Nee
Annie Johnson
Woodley
Callie Bell
John Milton
Elizabeth Bell
Old Stonewall
Old Moulton
Messrs
Bill
Son
Spur
Spofford
Bell
John Milton Bell
Elizabeth Kern
Stonewall
Old Bell
Tom Garrett
Thompson
John Thomas Thompson
Sarah Ann
John T. Thompson
Sarah Ann Hughes
Mr. Thompson
Stonewall Cemetery
Thomas Montgomery Wright
Big Hill
Berry
Stonewall pioneers and family ties span seven generations
The article traces Stonewall Texas settlers and kinship through seven generations over about 130 years. It names Wrights, Messrs Berry and Roden Wright, Emma and Bertha Key, Mrs. Sarah Ann Blair, the Cummins and Key families, and early settlers Curry, Smith, and Meyer, noting graves in Stonewall Cemetery and ancestral land purchases around Nickel and Williamson areas.
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Stonewall
Thomas M. Wright
John
Phillip
Jessie
Ben
Boden
Maud
Molly
Bertha Wright
Messrs
Berry
Roden Wright
Tke
Emma
Bertha Key
Bertha (Roden) Wright
Moulton
Blair
Texita Oil crew moves to Shelly No. 1 wildcat near Waelder
A Texita Oil Company crew moved Saturday to the L. G. Shelly No. 1 A. J. Kolar wildcat, five and a half miles south of Waelder in Gonzales County. The 2700 foot Carrizo Wilcox test had been delayed by rain and is located southeast of the Sturting Field in the L Tumlinson Survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texita Oil Company
L. G. Shelly
A. J. Kolar
Gonzales County
Waelder
Sturting
L. Tumlinson
Minnie Wiseman Celebrates 95th Birthday at Effenberger
Minnie Wiseman marked her 95th birthday Sunday March 1 at the Effenberger Rest Home. Family and relatives attended including Prof. and Mrs. A. G. Wiseman, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Janssen, Sue Cooper of Flatonia, and Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wiseman of Old Moulton. Refreshments followed the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Wiseman
Effenberger
Moulton
A. G. Wiseman
P. E. Cooper
Otto Janssen
Sue Cooper
Flatonia
C. 5S. Wiseman
Old Moulton
Stewart Named Honor Student at Texas A&M College
Louis Alvin Stewart of Arlington is named a distinguished student by the Dean's office at Texas A&M College. A sociology major and senior, he averaged top grades and plans graduate study for a Master of Science in Sociology. He held roles in the Sociology Club, Biology Club treasurer, Softball Team, Newman Club, D.A.V. senior vice commander, and Student Agricultural Council representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Alvin Stewart
Albina Stewart
Arlonia
Ernest Laqua
Moulte
Texas A.&m. College
Louis
Texas A.&m.college
Stewart
Pietsch Son Awarded First Clasp to Good Conduct Medal
Mr and Mrs Fred G Pietsch of Moulton receive a letter from Major R L Nebughr Randolph Field stating their son M Set Alves F Pietsch earned the First Clasp to the Good Conduct Medal with two loops for three years of exemplary United States Air Force service. Mrs E Janssen and Miss Leonad Janssen of Moulton are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred G. Pietsch
Moulton
R. L. Nebughr
Randolph Field
M-Set
Alves F. Pietsch
United States Air Force
USAF
Victoria Ports 35 Mile Channel Linking Gulf to Inland Waterway
Victoria advances a 35 mile deep channel along Guadalupe River to connect to the intracoastal canal system. Industry backs the plan with plants from Du Pont and Carbide and Carbon seeking a key feeder port for Texas and the national waterway network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Texas
Guadalupe River
Green and Mission Lakes
San Antonio Bay
du Pont
Carbide and Carbon
Gifford-Hill-Amercan
Congress
Corps of Engineers
Galveston
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Returns Home From Korea
First Lt. Daniel Helweg son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Helweg of Richmond returned home from Korea Feb 10. Last weekend Lt Helweg visited at the home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mueller and other relatives here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Helweg
Leon Helweg
Richmond
Korea
Helweg
John C. Mueller
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Legion News
Kopecky
Jerry Branecky
Johnnie
Jerome
Big Spring
Eugene
Arnold
George Branecky
Frank
Frances) Kindla
Mary) Boenisch
Tokyo
Japan
Roland
Rosalie) Boysen
Evelyn Branecky
Pauline Branecky
Konrad
Jim
Frank Masek
East Bernard
Frank Fiedler
Julia Pfister
New Braunfels
Clem Koblczek
Corpus Christi
Out of
Neel
Grandpa Culak
Vera
Frank Culak
Mr. Kuhen
Zannie Kuhen
Nickel
Joe Williamson
Williamson
Sgt. Pietsch
E. Janssen
Leonad Janssen
Bill Taylor
Victoria Bureau
Mexico
Florida
Maine
Trenton
N. J
L. M. Stevens
J. M. Pickering
C. S. E. Holland
Interstate Waterway League
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Republic of Texas
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Gulf
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Truman
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