1976: Fayette County Top Texas Swine Producer
Fayette County ranked number one in the state in hog production, with 25,900 head reported on hand during a recent tabulation, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner John C. White. Other Texas counties in the top 10 were: Llano, Lubbock, Mason, Gillespie, Fisher, Gray, Lee and Wilson. Nationally, the state’s total of 780,000 hogs put Texas in the number 16 spot, with a value of $52,650,000, up from $40,890,000 the prior year. The average price per head had jumped from $43.50 to $67.50 in two years.
Fayette County Commissioners authorized a formal request for a matching fund grant of $21,000 from the Texas Historical Commission for interior restoration of the Fayette County courthouse. If approved, restoration work would begin early in 1977, and any funds remaining after completion of the project would be applied to restoration of historic bridges in the county.
At the same meeting, commissioners deferred action regarding the dipping vat in Precinct 1. The county auditor and concerned parties were to determine ownership or lessee.
On Monday afternoon, local volunteer firefighters were called to the Dopslauf place on the Old Plum Road, where the mobile home owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dopslauf was on fire. The home and its contents were destroyed. Early Tuesday morning, firefighters were called to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hensel, south of the city, where a pick-up truck owned by Sammy Hensel was on fire. Only the tires and wheels escaped the blaze, but fortunately, the vehicle was parked outside because.
Carl L. Wendler, a vocational agriculture teacher at Schulenburg High School, was being honored by the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association of Texas in Fort Worth on August 3. Mr. Wendler was to be recognized for his 25 years of service to the vocational agriculture project in Texas.
At the same meeting, James C. Jackson, a former vocational-ag teacher in La Grange, now at Royal High School in Brookshire, was being honored for 30 years of service.
Fayetteville’s school board officially approved a revised district tax roll of $10,623,542. A tax rate of $1.20, which included $1.03 for local maintenance and 17¢ for bonded indebtedness, had been approved at an earlier meeting. Trustees again set discounts for early tax payments: 3% for October, 2% for November and 1% for December.
Funeral services were held for: Mrs. Estelle Camp Mc-Craw Hurst, 79, of La Grange; Lee H. Krause, 93, of Carmine; Gerhard Oeltjen, 84, of La Grange; Mr. Elsa Buscha, 72, of Rabb’s Prairie.
Three Bishop Forest club members, Diane Vyvjala, Barbara Rehak and Shirley Dittrich, were senior division winners in the Fayette County 4-H Dress Revue. Junior review winners were Christine Wick and Phyllis Cernoch of the La Grange club, and Lyn Leonhardt of the Round Top-Carmine club.
At the 1976 District 10 4-H Horse Show in San Marcos, Jerri Ann Diggs, Dana Hill, Kelly Smith and Bart Ullrich represented Fayette County.
Miss Schulenburg Robin Clark was chosen as the overall talent winner and second runner-up in the Miss South Texas Scholarship Pageant in Seguin. Miss Clark presented a skit from Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” playing the role of Cecily Cardew.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sommer celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, July 11 with an open house at St. Paul Lutheran Church’s educational building. Mr. and Mrs. Sommer were married in Nelsonville on Sept. 29, 1926, by the Rev. A. Motycka. They had two sons, Herbert Charles of Hampton, Va., and John Donald of Canyon, Texas.
The Fayetteville Boy Scouts Troop No. 207 returned from their summer camp at the Lost Pines at Bastrop. During the parents’ night ceremony, Jeffery Graeter and Leonard Kollaja were tapped out for the Order of the Arrow. They were to spend the last weekend of July at Lost Pines for the induction ceremony.
Jacob’s Store took the measure of Daybreak, 10-1, in Men’s Softball. Billy Koerth was the winning pitcher and Eugene Urbanovsky was charged with the loss. In another game, Karstedt Feeds triumphed over Daybreak, 14-5. Charles Rau was the winning hurler for Karstedt with Robert Herbrich posting four. Mike Petras and Charles Heintz had three each and Dean Niesner added two. Mark Janda had three safeties and Urbanovsky two each for Daybreak. J.C. Pohl won for Jacob’s and Hank Paine was given the loss.
Edgar von Minden Jr., a Fayetteville native living in Houston, completed a 13-day business trip to Tehran, Iran, to repair and correct problems on launchers and receivers on a 40-inch natural gas pipeline for his employer, Chemetron Tube Turns.
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Below are ads from 1976