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La Grange Independent School District trustees adopted a new hair and dress code in their hefty updated administrative manual. In general, the policy called for good taste and common sense in the way students wore their hair and clothes. Items ruled out for boys included beards, goatees or hair hanging below the eyes, ears or normal collar. T-shirts resembling underwear, shirts with tails worn outside the pants, belt-style pants worn without belts and going barefoot were also ruled unacceptable. For girls, extreme styles in which hair protruded more than two inches from the side of the head, hotpants, see-through blouses, halters, midriffs, skirts shorter than five inches above the knee and going barefoot were improper.
A 76-year-old Lincoln man was in Fayette Memorial Hospital after his pickup collided with a train on E. Colorado St. near Consolidated
The City of La Grange was seeking bids on construction of a box culvert and driveway on Beefhead Ditch on S. Jackson St.
Two Brahma heifers were struck dead by lightning on Monday on the Anton Salas place between Mullins Prairie and Holman. They were part of herd of 65 cattle grazing on a hillside pasture. In Hallettsville, a bolt of lightning struck the courthouse tower, ripping a gaping hole in the steeple about seven feet high and several
The La Grange Schroeder Drug Demons who returned from Wichita, Kansas, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning after dropping their second game in the National Baseball Congress championship playoffs, were wiser for the experience. The Demons of Manager Clint Bippert just couldn’t put the right pitching on the hill Tuesday afternoon as his team bowed to Midlothian, Illinois, one of the tourney favorites, 11-1, in six innings. Four La Grange hurlers – Steve Janda, Bobby Wittkamp, Tom Fullen and Allen Garbs – took turns on the hill, but none could silence the bats of the Illinois state champs.
La Grange Leopards Head Football Coach Ben Bloomer and his aides had 66 aspirants, including 32 seniors and juniors, 12 sophomores and 22 freshmen, turn out for conditioning exercises. The Leps were to continue two-a-day conditioning workouts through Thursday before donning pads for the first permitted contact drills starting Friday morning.
Two retiring Round Top-Carmine school bus drivers, Erich Braun and Henry Banks, were honored at the area school bus drivers’ training workshop on the Blinn College campus.
The Triumphs and The Tel-Stars were performing at a New Bielau Hall battle dance on Fri., Aug. 18. The Swing Kings were playing on Sat., Aug. 19 at the American Legion Hall in Smithville. The same evening, at the Sons of Hermann Hall in Giddings, Jimmy Heap was providing the music and at the Rifle Assoc. Hall in Round Top, The Country Nu-Notes were taking the stage.
Six La Grange employees of General Telephone Co. of the Southwest received service awards. The highlight of the evening event was the recognition of operator services manager Mrs. Belle Bradford for 40 years with the company. Other awards went to: Miss Mae Phillips, operator, 35 years; Anton Recek, combination man, 20 years; Eugene Homeyer, install repairman, 20 years; and Sammy Halliburton, facilityman,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reiss observed their golden wedding anniversary with a Mass of Thanksgiving Saturday evening, July 15, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Plum. The celebrant was Rev. Rudolf Hoffmann. Miss Annie Pospisil and Fred L. Reiss were married on July 10, 1922, in La Grange at Sacred Heart Catholic Church by Rev. George. Barberich.After their wedding, the couple made their home for the
Jack B. Dyer of La Grange ranked in the high honors results for the 1972 spring semester at the University of Texas College of
The first annual Fayette County Championship Cow Chip Chunking Contest was shaping up to be a hilarious event at the 1972 Fayette County Fair. Sponsored by KVLG and open to men, women and children, the diversion was to be held the first three evenings of the 45th annual event in the Jaycee Ball Park immediately following
When the Fayette County Junior Livestock Show directors and committee members met, Morris Zapalac was re-elected chairman by acclamation. Elmond H. Baumbach was named vice chairman; George Hajovsky, secretary; and Ronnie Voss, treasurer. Two new rules were added to the show regulations. The first stated that all animals leaving the showgrounds must be checked out with the committee chairman and no animals were to be removed until all entries in that division had sold. The second rule stated that all project record forms had to be turned into the committee upon entering the show ring. It was decided to purchase badges to identify committeemen.
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