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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1966
Page
1
An author recounts publishing frustration and a ruse to get works noticed. A sour view of editors, a long acquaintance, and a plan to publish his “classics” amid comic self mockery. The narrator reveals odd anecdotes about childhood and a publishing house family connection.
An invitation goes out for Green-Dickson Park Day on Sunday August 21. Supper tickets at 1.00 per plate are sold in advance by players from the Little League Babe Ruth and little girls teams. Committees urge buyers to purchase now to aid planning.
The Wagner Clinic doctors schedule Monday August 8 at 6:00 PM for follow-up on previous inoculations for all children in the Summer Pre School program. This is the only time these immunizations will be given. Please be prompt. David A. Little Superintendent.
Skeeter Edwards conducts swimming classes at Sulphur Park from August 8 to August 12. Prices are 3.75 dollars. Advanced swimmers meet 9 to 10, non-swimmers 7 years and older 10 to 11, and children 6 and under 11 to 12. Register at 1313 N Ave B or call LY 4 2379.
SHS male athletes must pass a required physical for the 1966-67 I U L season. Examinations will be given by local doctors at the Wagner Clinic on Monday August 8 at 6 30 p m. Any boy missing this date must pay for a later exam.
A Victoria Texas Social Security Office representative will visit Shiner City Hall at 9 am Monday August 8 1966 to assist residents with retirement survivor disability or medicare claims. Teachers with nine month contracts may receive summer benefits if eligible and under the amended retirement test may be paid months with earnings below 125 dollars.
The first bale of cotton ginned at the Farmers Co-op Gin in Kenedy was harvested by Eddie Ruhmann and Necho Villanueva from the Paul Ruhmann farm on July 26. It weighed 553 pounds from 2070 pounds of seed cotton and produced 770 pounds of seed, middling inch grade. Ginner was Fred McCain, with Floyd Swoop as plant manager. A chamber of commerce bonus gift was given to Villanueva by B A Myers, chamber manager.
The material for your uniforms is available at Welhausen's Dry Goods Store. Ready before school starts the outfits match last year's A-line skirt and sleeveless V-neck top with a white blouse.
The Hermann Sons Shiner Lodge No. 20 met July 18 in Hermann Sons Hall with President Edgar Kram presiding. Officers reported accounts and minutes, sympathy cards sent, and a floor refinishing schedule. A Golden Medallion was awarded to two charter members from 1906. The group booked August 21 at the Home for the Aged in Comfort and announced a charter bus trip details.
Funeral services for Frederick C. Pfeil age 76 were held at Elim Lutheran Church in Kenedy with Rev. Arthur W. Almquist presiding. Interment followed at Karnes County Memorial Park. Survivors include wife Mary C. Pfeil and brothers Edmund and Adolph Pfeil. services attended by relatives from Shiner and Kenedy.
Adolph C Biehunko of Route 2 Hallettsville died at 8 20 am Wednesday July 27 1966 in a Hallettsville Hospital at age 32 4 19 Funeral services were held Friday July 29 at 915 am Kubena Funeral Home Chapel and 930 am Sacred Heart Church with burial Sacred Heart Cemetery Survivors include six Hallettsville sisters two Hallettsville brothers and one Bryan resident He was predeceased by his father in 1964 and his mother in 1954.
A bridal shower for Earlene Farkus, bride elect of Marvin Patek, is moved to Shiner Catholic Parish Gym from Hermann Sons Hall. Invitations had listed the other venue. The note mentions ocean waves reaching up to 80 feet in extreme conditions.
Mrs Carrie Nell Stanley Craig 77 of 2000 Neches Ave Port Arthur died July 26 1966 after a five day illness at Cresthaven Nursing Residence Groves She had been wheelchair bound since a 1959 stroke Funeral services were held July 27 at Grammier Oberle Port Arthur with burial at Brenham City Cemetery Survivors include two daughters Delores Trimble and LaVerne Mercer two grandchildren three brothers and three sisters Also noted were the deaths of two brothers John H Stanley and Jim Stanley and a sister Kate Lauderdale The Stuebers attended the Brenham service and visited a hospital patient in Giddings after.
Catholic Altar Society meets August 9 at 2 30 p m in the Parish Gym. Knights of Columbus corporate communion August 7 at 6 30 Mass. Bunj es Home Demonstration Club family night August 7 7 00 p m at Sulphur Park. Machart s 7th Reunion August 7 V F W Hall Moulton basket lunch. Pfeis Reunion August 14 Shiner Hermann Sons Hall basket lunch. Shiner Farm Bureau meeting August 9 8 00 p m Legion dining hall social. bring sandwiches or cake.
Edwin Dolezal and Stella H. Dolezal purchase the Sage Motel at the North Y on Highway 77 Kingsville effective August 1 1966 from Naomi and Walter Wesley. They will operate under resident managers Lee and Gene Skipper until Edwin Dolezal completes US Navy duty in June 1967.
Park Day at Legion Park in Shiner on Sunday August 21 offers an afternoon of friends food and fun with hourly drawings and a 9 pm prize ceremony. Austin Ray Seale a longtime Vocational Agriculture teacher in Shiner will be honored in Fort Worth August 10 for 20 years of service.
Dismissed patients include Mrs Leonida Valenta Joe R Mikesh Mrs Jim Kocian Mrs Anthony Hartl Mrs Albert Hohmann William Pratka Mrs Anthony Jaluska and baby boy Mrs Harold Koenning and baby boy Mrs Ben Matula and baby girl Louis Roznovsky Readable names show a local hospital round up of current admissions and discharges this week.
The First National Bank of Shiner sponsors a Park Day event on August 21 offering a reward to the team selling the most tickets. Eligible participants include the little girls and Little Leaguers.
Shiner VFW Post 6209 and Ladies Auxiliary announce their annual picnic at Legion Park Shiner on Sunday August 7 1966. Two meals a main at 11 a.m. priced adults 1.00 children 50c plus a 3 p.m. lunch. Grounds offer concessions and a 7 to 11 p.m. dance with The Chaparels admission 60c. All welcome.
The Shiner Police Auxiliary softball team will play the Shiner Base Robbers at Green Dickson Municipal Park Friday August 5 at 7 30 p m Prizes will be awarded after the game.
The Texas State Insurance Board enacted a driver penalty system to curb unsafe driving. Penalties assign points for speeding drunken driving and license violations, with up to four points kept per driver and premium increases up to 90 percent in 26 rating territories. The plan, first used 1960 1962, replaces the earlier merit system and bases rates on territory rather than statewide.
Dr H B Gee and Mrs Gee depart today with children Artie and Willeen for a Mexico City vacation. Dr Gee plans to reopen his Yoakum office on August 15.
Mrs. Johnny Hajek and daughters Loretta and Gail joined Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hajek of Edna in Houston to visit Johnny Hajek at the VA Hospital. He is reported much improved and no longer wheelchair bound after sustaining head injuries in a motor scooter crash Saturday afternoon July.
Fire Marshal Ben Marcak urges businesses and residents to clean up premises to remove fire hazards as hot dry weather increases fire risk. People are reminded that discarded matches cigarettes rubbish wiring and carelessness can start fires and that prevention is essential.
Shiner Business Men's Club met at Legion Park dining hall on Thursday July 28. Marvin Null served as president, and Clarence Sembera read minutes. Ladies night plans were set for the Shiner cafetorium with two food chairs. Frank E. Strong was elected president with Edgar Hartmann and Clarence Sembera as officers. term starts in August.
Gonzales-Raymond Neitsch reports his hay barn burned Sunday July 24 around 4 p.m. and smoldered into Monday afternoon. The 96 by 40 foot barn near the dairy building held about 200 bales of hay on the outside and the fire threatened other structures if the wind shifted. The blaze caught from new hay inside.
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