Remember When?

La Grange’s Jaycee Demons and 1973 state NBC champion Gomez Jewelry of Houston divided an exhibition baseball twin bill at Fair Park on Saturday. The Demons won the opener by a 6-5 measure while Gomez answered the afterpiece, 3-0. La Grange plated three quick counters in the first frame of the lid lifter around Neal Miller’s two-run triple, Dave Zatopek’s single, a walk and a sacrifice. Gomez came back with a deuce in the top of the second, but the Demons dished a solo in the third without base hit support off the Houstonians’ Bobby Wittkamp. The Clint Bippermen won it in the tail end of the seventh and final stanza after two were away. Neal Miller, with a walk, and Bubba Riehs, aboard by way of a fielding choice, scored the tying and winning counters via a wild pitch, a throwing error and two more passes issued by Wittkamp.

The La Grange Ladies Softball Association was opening its season with two games on Wednesday, June 12 at Fair Park. The first game was to match Fashion Dress Shop and Gold ‘n Crisp. In the nightcap, La Grange Plumbing Co. would oppose The First National Bank.

At a La Grange City Council meeting, Precinct 1 constable Ovie Roensch was sworn in as building inspector. The new night patrolman was Darrell Koopmann, the son of Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Vastine Koopmann.

Wilbert Jaster of Jaster Distributing Co. announced the price paid for empty aluminum beverage cans would surge from 10¢ to 19¢ a pound, reflecting corresponding increases in raw and scrap aluminum prices. The La Grange Pearl distributor had already removed 576,688-plus cans from the Fayette County area.

A funeral service was held for Edgar Wolle, 79, of Rutersville.

Jeanette Schindler of Schulenburg and Nancy Huelsebusch of La Grange were awarded one-year March of Dimes healthcare career awards of $200 each. Miss Schindler was enrolling in the fall at the University of Texas in Austin to become a registered dietician. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schindler of Schulenburg and a 1974 graduate of Bishop Forest High School, she had been a member of the National Honor Society for three years. Miss Huelsebusch planned to enroll at Blinn Junior College for one year and then continue her studies at Brackenridge Hospital and the University of Texas in Austin to become an RN. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Huelsebusch of La Grange and a 1974 graduate of La Grange High School.

Seven Fayette County 4-H members were participating in the District 10 Leadership Lab in Brenham. They were: Daniel Cernoch, La Grange; Carolyn Lehmann, Warda; William Ernestes, Swiss Alp; Catherine Hajovsky, Holman; and Donna Wallace, Kenneth Zapalac and Harold Atkinson, Ellinger.

At Texas A&M University’s spring commencement exercises, eight students from Fayette County were receiving degrees: Daniel M Jurk, animal science, summa cum laude, La Grange; Eugene J. Kruppa, civil engineering, magna cum laude, La Grange; Lee A. Heselmeyer, recreation and parks; Larry Ray Joost, agricultural engineering; Michael L. Kasper, Warda, physical education; Marcus F. Kruppa, agronomy; Charles R. Pazderny, Fayetteville, civil engineering; and James H. Treybig, Fayetteville, mathematics.

Scott L. Smith, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Smith of La Grange, was commissioned a second lieutenant and awarded a bachelor of science degree upon graduation from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado. Scott was a 1970 graduate of La Grange High School.

Dr. Don Mayer opened offices for the practice of orthodontics in the Boelsche Clinic in La Grange. He planned to move into a new clinic on N. Jackson St. as soon as construction was completed. The son of Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Mayer, Dr. Mayer was a 1963 graduate of La Grange High School. He received his doctor of dental surgery degree in 1970 from the University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston and, following two years of private practice in Austin, entered the post-graduate school at the University of Texas Dental Branch.

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