Remember When
When John Kubos and Mark Friedel spent an afternoon picking up trash on a 150-yard stretch of road near Monument Hill, they bagged 250 metal cans and three whiskey bottles.
The newly formed La Grange Genealogical and Historical Society announced a project to identify and catalog as many graves in the county as possible. The group said there were many very small family cemeteries on farms all over the county, some with only one or two graves. Many of these sites were overgrown or too far from the road to be seen. Mrs. Bill Fry of Houston was keeping a list of these family cemeteries, as well as contact information for the landowners.
M-K-T freight trains were running again after workers cleared the tracks following a derailment at Bastrop. Several tons of wheat on the way to Houston for export spilled when a freight train left the tracks in downtown Bastrop. This was the fourth derailment of a Katy train in Bastrop County since the beginning of the year. The case of the mishap, which sent 14 open-top hopper cars off the tracks, was not immediately known and no injuries were reported.
Mr. and Mrs. John Quinn’s half-blood bred Simmental female was one of 27 that sold for an average of $2,025 at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth.
The United Pentecostal Church of La Grange planned to dedicate its new sanctuary at a special service at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Lester H. Zapalac of La Grange was awarded a certificate of appreciation for five years of service on the local draft board. The award was signed by President Nixon and Texas Governor Preston Smith.
Mrs. Frances Balko, who was living at Warrenton with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Krueger, celebrated her 104th birthday. The celebrant, who requested that no special celebration be held, was in fairly good health and enjoyed many visits from friends and family over a fourday period.
La Grange Cub ScoutTroop 213 held its annual Blue & Gold Banquet at the Sacred Heart Cafeteria with about 90 persons in attendance. Den mothers, Mesdames Frank Brauner Jr., Bobbie Byler and Stanley Mach were in charge of arrangements. Randy Freudenburg, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Freudenburg; Harry Lee Freudenburg, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Freudenburg; and Michael Mach, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mach, were presented with their Wolf Badges and Gold and Silver Arrow Points.
La Grange High School track teams placed third in a stiff field of 16 at the annual Hearne Relays. The big varsity winner was Jim Quinn, who placed first in shot put with a distance of 54 feet 3¾ inches. He broke both the meet record of 47 feet 9 inches and the La Grange school record of 52 feet 1½ inches that Stephen Citzler set in 1970. Jim also came in third in the 330 intermediate hurdles with a time of 42.6 and third in the 120 high hurdles at 16.2. Brian Prause heaved the discus 138 feet 8 inches to break a meet record of 127 feet 7 inches.The mile relay team of Robert Poole, Edward Hardy Willrich, Lester Grant and Kenneth Williams placed fourth with a time of 3 minutes 3.9 seconds.
The annual reunion of the Old-Timers Baseball Association of South-Central Texas was scheduled for March 11 at Blase’s Place, four miles west of Hallettsville. The late Edgar (Nookie) Rosenberg of La Grange was to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the gettogether.
A delegation from Precinct 3 attended the Fayette County Commissioners’ Court meeting to ask that different systems of ambulance service be explored and a county ambulance director be appointed as soon as possible. Another delegation representing the Travis State School entered a request for approximately $6,800 in funds. Through its Fayette County outreach program set up in January 1972, a total of 77 persons had been identified who would benefit from services at the Travis State School. The most pressing need appeared to be classroom training for those not receiving assistance from any other institutions. A class had been started at the Church of Christ in La Grange taught by Mrs. Alta Head. Several parents drove approximately 50 miles three days a week in order to bring their children.
The three funeral homes in Lavaca County served notice to commissioners’ court and city governments that they would discontinue providing ambulance service in their respective communities on July 1, 1973.
Funeral services were held for: Harvey Lamascus, 60, of Schulenburg; Ernest Muske, 77, of Warrenton; Mrs. Mary Mazoch, 60, of Holman; Mrs.Anne Jecmenek Petrusek, a Fayette County native; and Mrs. Louise Kruse, 70, a native of Walhalla.
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