Fayette County Towns Share $45,731
Sept. 17-21, 1976
The state comptroller’s office sent the City of La Grange a check for $24,087, its June rebate for optional sales and use tax collections. That brought the first-halfyear total to $63,788. By comparison, the La Grange sum for all of 1975 was $119,661. The six Fayette County towns which had adopted the 1% levy received checks totaling $45,731 for June, bringing their total to $68,206 for the 1976 second quarter. That was split between: Carmine, $1,186; Fayetteville, $2,506; Flatonia, $6,859; La Grange, $35,773; Round Top, $756; and Schulenburg, $21,126.
Fayette County Judge Fritz Lobpries was a featured speaker at a statewide meeting at Round Top sponsored by the University of Texas atAustin Winedale Museum and the Texas Historical Commission. Judge Lobpries was invited to be a presenter because of his success in obtaining funding for the preservation of the historic courthouse in La Grange. Fayette County had recently obtained two matching federal grants totaling $42,000 from the Texas Historical Commission for the restoration of both the exterior and the interior of the courthouse. The Department of the Interior had recently placed the structure on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fayette County farmers were reporting better-thanaverage grain sorghum crops and very good corn harvests. Although peanut farmers were credited with doing an effective job on disease control the prior year, stem rot was causing much concern for the 1976 crop. The pecan crop was also anticipated to be weak.
The La Grange Leopards made it look easy again. Scoring every time they got hold of the football in the first half, they piled up a 35-0 intermission margin and coasted to a 42-0 victory over the Weimar Wildcats at Leopard Field on Friday night. The win was their third straight District 25AAencounter in which they had scored 140 points to six for their opponents, and their fifth in six starts this season. Weimar was 1-2 in district and 3-3 for the season. The big-play Leopard offense excited the audience, but again, it was the overwhelming line play, especially on defense, that made things so one-sided. Weimar could manage only 60 yards of total offense. Defensively, it was an all-team effort with 17 Leps figuring in one or more tackles. Shelby Willett led the pursuit with nine stops, closely followed by Kenny Zimmerhanzel, Tommy Supak and Curtis Ray. Tommy Matocha picked off two passes from his defensive halfback post, and Garry Matocha intercepted one and returned it 40 yards for a touchdown. La Grange took 13 plays and nearly six official minutes to register the first touchdown. The drive covered 73 yards, highlighted first by a fine catch of a Hatfield pass by Billy Dunk, who was popped hard by Gary Mazoch, just as the ball arrived and then by a 16-yard run by Johnnie Johnson up the middle.
U.S. Representative J.J. (Jake) Pickle announced that one of the world’s largest solar energy projects would be located at the new Federal Youth Center on the old Camp Swift property in Bastrop County. Pickle announced the $1.13 million solar heating and cooling project at the groundbreaking for the new, one-story central prison building.
County Judge Fritz Lobpries signed a proclamation officially designating September 26-30 as Young Farmer Week in Fayette County, drawing attention to the vital farm group, the Young Farmer Association. Sponsored by the vocational agriculture departments at the Schulenburg and Round Top-Carmine High Schools, chapter advisors were vocational agriculture teachers. Gary McBride, president of the Schulenburg Young Farmers, and Wilton Schoenst, president of the Round Top-Carmine chapter, reminded members and interested persons to attend the next meeting of the Young Farmers in their town.
Chromcik Council No. 2574, Knights of Columbus, of La Grange, was sponsoring a barbecue and benefit party on Sunday, Sept. 26, with all the proceeds going to the medical expenses of Bobby Bordovsky, who was scheduled for a kidney transplant.
Fayette County Commissioners denied the remodeling of the Fayette County agriculture building to meet the open area concept requested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
La Grange Leopard football fans were reminded that sections B and C would constitute reserve seating for La Grange home games. Section C had previously served as seating for general admission tickets sold at the gate. Since a number of C seats were unsold for the season, they would be offered on a first-come, firstserved basis on Friday, Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Funeral services were held for: Mrs. Emilie Muras, 79, of Hostyn; Mrs. Hulda Theresia Walther, 90, of Giddings; Mrs. Ella Bettie Clark, 90, a native of La Grange; Mrs. Jenovefa Cernoch, 91, a Fayette County native; Edison H. Bergmann, 68, of Carmine; Oliver (Bobby) Neidig, 58, of Round Top; Otto E. Markwardt, 86, of Round Top; and Arno Brau, 84, of Round Top.
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