REMEMBER WHEN?

50 Years Ago

Sept. 18-22, 1970

La Grange’s student protest against tape measure inspection of girls’ skirts and a new rule limiting extra-curricular activities reached the school board Tuesday night. In the stormy two-hour session, high school juniors Sandra Altmann and Martha Janssen spoke at length about the new rule that limited students to two extra-curricular activities as members or major office holders. Melissa McMillion, a junior student, presented a petition to the board about the dress code. In part it read, “We do not like the present dress code in this school. It is too strict and too difficult to comply with. It is inconsistent from class to class and day to day, and the punishment is too severe.” College student and graduate of LGHS, Clifford Giese was attending the meeting as an observer for a sociology course. He asked if the skirt lengths were obscene or whether the rule was to keep the girls in line. School board president Dr. L.D. Boelsche replied it was to keep the girls inline and went on to say that he resented an outsider taking up time in the meeting. Another board member, Dr. Schwake said he felt the hometown boy should be entitled to speak.

The price of an extra half pint of milk at Hermes School Cafeteria went back down to a nickel again. That action came as the result of an advisory from the Texas Education Agency via the U.S. Department of Agriculture that the special milk programs would continue through 1971.

A survey conducted by The Record revealed that 1,203 bales of cotton had been processed by the four remaining gins in Fayette County. However, the crop was late, and several gin men said they expected to get several hundred more bales. That was especially true in the southern part of the county where torrential rains in mid-May made much replanting mandatory. The summer drought that followed didn’t help either.

A former La Grange man was elected president of Texaco, Inc. Maurice F. Granville, who had been vice president and assistant to the board chairman, had been with Texaco for 31 years and lived in New York. Reared in La Grange, Mr. Granville received his high school education here. He was the son of Mrs. M.F. Granville of Austin, the former Miss Dora von Rosenberg.

Colorado County Commissioners Court rejected by a 3-1 vote a resolution supporting efforts to build a dam or series of dams on the Colorado River. The resolution submitted by the Colorado River Water Development Association, sought the commissioners’ support for a survey of the river by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Refusal by commissioners to approve the resolution was not viewed as a serious setback because their approval was not required or necessary. However, the vote was a clear indication that at least some opposition persisted in Colorado County regarding construction of a dam. No official from the association appeared at the meeting, although about 35 persons attended. German measles vaccina

tions were slated countywide on November 5 and 6. Mrs. Ralph Voss was elected overall vaccination program chairman with Mrs. Frank Brauner as co-chair.

Funeral services were held for: John F. Broz Sr., 78, of Blieblerville; Frank J. Urban, 69, of La Grange; Emil Berger, 68, of Ammannsville; Mrs. Vera Ehlert, 67, of La Grange; Mrs. Johanna von Minden, 82, of Fayetteville; Mrs. Gesine Behrens, 85, of La Grange; and Mrs. Vlasta Kulhanek, 75, of Fayetteville.

The 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was going on display September 19.

A La Grange visitor, George Bush Jr. of Houston, was campaigning for his father, Rep. George Bush Sr., was in La Grange on Wednesday morning. He was accompanied by Robert Chandler of Houston, a volunteer worker in the Bush campaign. The men also made campaign stops in Bastrop and Smithville en route to the Richmond-Rosenberg area.

Plum’s Ravens lost their first game of a best of three series for the Community League championship at Plum on Sunday with Noack prevailing by a 9-5 score. Plum scored twice in the first, but Noack came back with one in the second and another in the third to tie it up. Noack went ahead with a pair in the fifth, but the Ravens retaliated with one in its half of the fifth and two in the sixth to take the lead once more. However, the final blow came in the seventh when Noack went ahead to stay with a five-run rally. Larry Vasek, Doyle Roensch and Hank Holub hurled for the losers, while Mike Reichenbach relieved Randy Stacks in the sixth to pick up the win for Noack. Roensch was charged with the loss.

The Round Top Rifle Assoc. invited the public to come “visit with us and have a lively time.” This non-profit community service organization was chartered shortly after the Civil War, about June 15 of 1873, for the expressed purpose “to support and encourage innocent outdoor sports, such as bicycle riding, target and trap shooting, open air athletics, games, dancing and others of a like character.” The original 1873 charter was destroyed along with all other hall records on Nov. 10, 1925, when the Ernest Fricke Store burned down. Membership, by invitation only, stood at 100.

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