50 Years Ago from The Fayette County Record
May 9, 1972
La Grange received 4.15 inches of rainfall – the most for a 24-hour period since October 1970 – between 3 a.m. and high noon on Sunday. That pushed the city’s annual accumulation up to 11.98 inches. La Grange had received 5.05 inches of rainfall since the first of May. Several roads in the Schulenburg area were closed because of flash flooding. This included FM 1579 (the old Weimar…