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Petition Urges City Council to Curb Strays

La Grange City Council took another step to curb the stray dog menace. Plans were initiated for mandatory licensing and vaccination of all canines, penned or leashed, to prevent them from running at large, and for disposal of animals still astray after the program was operating. The action was taken after a petition bearing 523 names was presented to council, in which signers asked for relief from the threat of roaming dogs. Licensing of all dogs in the city would be required. The council also proposed that the city’s animal ordinance be amended to increase the annual fee from $1 to $5, the same amount that most cities of comparable size charged. Imprinted metal license tags would be issued to be affixed to dog collars along with anti-rabies vaccination tags.

At the same meeting, Jimmie Hahn of La Grange Concrete & Aggregates asked city council to release the two remaining areas of an old, unused runway at the airport as a source of gravel for his plant. Council had earlier granted release of the southern part of the abandoned grassed-over runway. The matter was referred to the airport advisory board.

A former Fayette County man, Rodney C. Koenig, was promoted to full partnership in the major Houston law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Koenig, a native of the O’Quinn community, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Koenig. He graduated from La Grange High School in 1958 and the University of Texas in 1962. He served in the U.S. Navy as chief engineer aboard the Destroyer USS Braine and later as an assistant professor of Naval science at Auburn University. He received his doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1969.

Mrs. Fritz (Minnie) Miller, who lived near Prairie Valley, would be 76 years old ‘young’ on July 4, 1976, the nation’s 200th birthday, the date of the U.S. Bicentennial.

Fayette County Commissioners completed distribution of $363,153.18 in permanent school bond funds and receipts from government bond investments to county schools.

Camp Lone Star was planning to celebrate its 40th year of operation with an oldfashioned benefit barbecue with all the trimmings, costing $2.50 for adults and $1 for youngsters under 12.

Funeral services were held for: Clinton Albert Warnasch, 78, of Shelby; Sam Webb, 93, of Flatonia; Wayne Null, 56, of Muldoon; and Mrs. Viola Bambuch, 72, a native of Fayetteville.

The year’s first screwworm cases in both Grimes and Washington counties were identified. On June 21, Texas had confirmed 3,626 screwworm cases.

Fayetteville’s spanking new U.S. post office passed its official inspection and went into operation. Ludvik Chovanec was the postmaster.

A musical Fourth of July weekend was planned at Round Top Festival’s salute to the nation’s 200th birthday. That included outdoor concerts on Friday and Saturday evening featuring James Dick, with young artists studying at the Festival Institute during the summer, and a concert of American music by the All-City Youth Orchestra of Austin on Sunday evening, July 4th.

Cheryl Tilicek and Sherrie Balcar completed an intensive week of study at the honors seminar in business at Trinity University. The Schulenburg High School faculty chose the two young women to attend the program.

La Grange’s Jaycee Demons got revenge for an earlier setback by the Veterans by downing Weimar, 9-5, on Sunday afternoon at Fair Park. The hotly contested South Central Texas Amateur League tilt saw the lead change hands several times until Clint Bippert’s charges chased four balls across the pay station in the fifth to stay in front for keeps. Crafty relief hurling by Neal Miller also contributed heavily to the victory. Neal relieved his brother, Bill, in the fourth, when Bill had to retire because of a pulled leg muscle. Neal gave up only four scattered safeties and two runs (only one earned) in his relief stint and was credited with the win. Charlie Neal was the loser.

The Braves and Cubs were night winners in senior division Little League action. The Braves took the Pirates, 7-3, and the Cubs whitewashed the Ravens, 10-0. Pat Fowler picked up the win for the Braves and Stanley Krebs got the loss. John Lindemann and Greg Trlicek got all the Braves’ hits with two singles each. Marvin Marburger went the route in securing the Cubs’ victory. Ronnie Pietsch, who was relieved by Donnie Kruppa in the sixth, was the loser. Seven hits by the Cubs included two singles by Bill Roitsch, a triple by Richard Chovanec and a double by Marburger. Charles Bippert had a double and a single for two of the three Ravens’ hits.

Larry Dale Hernandez of La Grange graduated from Texas State Technical Institute in Waco, where he studied aviation maintenance.

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