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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1955
Page
4
Relatives from San Antonio Bellville Needville Yoakum Corpus Christi Galena Park and other places attended the last rites for Charlie Balusek. Local families and friends from Houston Austin and San Antonio visited hospitalized relatives and noted weekend travel and hospital stays.
La Grange Jaycee Demons burst ahead with ten straight base hits and nine walks to topple Shiner 12 to 5 in South Central Texas League action. Travis Etzel earned his third win despite nine hits, while Shiner’s Jimmy Fric started and Dave Pavlas finished.
Earle Younts South Texas representative of the National Cotton Council urged focus on research promotion and efficient production to expand U S cotton markets at home and abroad He recalled the 1939 founding of the council to protect and expand markets and cited gains in domestic consumption since then including sharper increases in dress fabrics shirts carpets and blouses driven by advertising and new fibers and finishes
In Austin the Selective Service completed a massive purge destroying about 1,750,000 draft files from 1940 to 1947. The records were stored since 1947 and sold to a paper company then a Michigan pulp mill. Some files, including current 1948 law records, are preserved with 137 boards statewide.
The weekly hospital roster includes Mrs. E. C. Merseburger Mrs. Jos Rott Mrs. Delmar Laas Mrs. Louis Matias and baby boy Mrs. Donald Dreyer Mrs. Chas Gaedke R J Osborn Shiner Mrs. Robert Janda Caldwell Charlie Smejkal Miss Clara Petering Yoakum Mrs. G B Brown Flatonia and how they were listed among admitted patients Dismissed patients include Mrs C W Sherry and baby girl Lawrence Pekar Ann Roznovsky Mrs Edward Kaiser and baby girl Mrs Henry Pavliska and baby boy Mrs Paulie Michaelis Mrs Ben A Kocian Mrs Ed L Roeder Mrs J A Gosch Mrs D A Fortune Louis Matusek Mrs Alois J Kallus Mrs Joe Garcia Mrs Adolph Darilek George Ammermann Colored Unit Wife of Floyd White and baby girl O i
The notice lists Holy Masses at Sts Cyril and Methodius and Mission Church in Dilworth with services on Sundays and Holy Days, plus confessional hours. It details Methodist and Baptist church activities, confirmations and youth programs, and recent local movements and visits among area families.
Delara District held its June Scouters Roundtable in La Grange at the VFW Hall with about 40 Scouters and Troop 203 Scouts. Jeff Doggett and Lewis Nix directed Cubbing, Dr J B Cook and Frank Kana led Scouting and Exploring sections. Dr A J A Watzlavick and Lewis Nix will train at Philmont Ranch in New Mexico and return for the July 19 Cuero Roundtable. Next month’s theme will be Outdoor Fun for Cubbing and Get in the Water for Scouting and Explorer sections. A barbecue in Taft honored Harry Ray Picha.
The BVM Society of the KJZT met at the Parish Gym on Sunday June 12 at 1 30 pm with 49 members present. Reports included sympathy cards for three sick members and payments to surgery patients. A $25 donation to the Czech Catholic Home for the Aged at Hillje plus a contribution for the Sunday Czech program were announced. New sponsor Mrs Mildred Zaruba elected. gift rosary prize awarded to Mrs Victor Patek. Next meeting set for July 10.
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