REMEMBER WHEN?
50 Years Ago from the files of The Fayette County Record
June 25-29, 1971
Two adjoining businesses in La Grange were broken into some time Monday night or early Tuesday morning. After a pane in a west side window of Ruether’s Grocery on Colorado St. was knocked out to gain entrance, a few cigarettes and other small items were stolen. The cash register, which contained a nominal amount of cash, was not molested. Although nothing was missing, a door panel was knocked out on the west side of Edna and Millie’s Cafe.
A chicken snake that got mixed up in some recloser bushings at the sub-station behind the old ice plant on Tuesday night caused an electrical failure in a large part of La Grange. Utility crews isolated the major outage area in the eastern part of town and restored service in about 20 minutes. The rest of the area without electricity had service restored in just over an hour. The substation where the failure occurred was to be phased out in the near future.
During a rain shower on Sunday afternoon, five head of cattle were killed by lightning on the Lee Whitely place at Muldoon.
Weekend rainfall varied anywhere from less than an inch to over two. The heaviest showers were in the Dubina community where 2.3 inches were reported.
Leo Heller was appointed to the three-man Fayette County Farmers Home Administration committee. Succeeded Elmo A. Minzenmeyer of Swiss Alp, Mr. Heller was a lifelong resident, farm and livestock man of the Ammannsville area. Other committee members were Eugeno A. Kainer of the Sedan community and Werner C. Heise of La Grange.
Frisch Auf! Valley Country Club’s board of directors awarded a scholarship to recent high school graduate Randy Otto. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Otto, Randy planned to apply the funds to his first semester tuition, books and supplies at James Connally Tech in Waco.
Catherine Smith and Paulett Tielsch were preparing for a study-travel tour sponsored by the Foreign Study League in Salt Lake City, Utah. The course consisted of four hours of daily instruction in history and government, humanities, contemporary issues and culture. Successful completion of the program would earn the students three hours of college credit. Cities the young women would visit included Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris and London, as well as major centers in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and The Netherlands. Catherine was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith and Paulett’s parents were Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Tielsch.
The La Grange Ravens made the most of seven hits on Monday night to defeat the Yoakum Hubs, 8-3, in a Tri-County Teenage League tilt. This brought their record to an unblemished 5-0 for the season. Gary Dippel got three of the seven base knocks, all singles, as Bubba Smith and Kenny Hatfield combined hill efforts to toss a no-hit game against the Hubbers. Smith, however, had control trouble, walking 10, five of them in a row, but fanned 10 in four frames. Hatfield whiffed four and free-passed two in the final three heats. The Braves didn’t fare as well against the other Yoakum entry, the Toms. They lost by a close 7-6 score in eight innings. Yoakum utilized three bingles for the extra-inning tiebreaker.
Gallup’s of Schulenburg beat the Country Girls, 17-10, and the La Grange Plumbing Company Plumbers defeated Sig II Chic II, 13-5, in ladies softball. Helen Stanzel socked a grand slammer, while Loretta Pauler and Lana Janacek also homered for the winners, while Marie Wolle ganged out a four-master for the Country lassies. Becky Lobpries’ triple got the Sig-Chic ladies off to a three-run first inning lead that they held onto until the top of the fifth when the Plumbers scored four times for a 9-5 advantage. Then they went on to increase that margin.
W.E. Schulze Grocery advertised the following grocery specials: Maxwell House coffee, 1 lb. can, 79¢; Coca Cola, 12-bottle carton, 69¢; Mrs. Tucker’s shortening, 3 lb. can, 69¢; Kraft macaroni dinner, 2 pkg., 45¢; Blue Bell Mellorine, half gallon, 39¢; stew meat, 1 lb., 45¢; and cantaloupes, 2 for 49¢.
Funeral services were held for: Julius A. Holubec, 68, of La Grange; Adolph E. Volcik, 73, of Fayetteville; and W.D. Brunken, 83, a native of Warrenton.
Mrs. E.H. Francke sold the Fashion Dress Shop at 123 W. Colorado in La Grange to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Busch. Mrs. Francke had owned and operated the ladies wear store for more than a decade. The business had been established in 1961 by Mrs. M.R. Schmidt.
Twelve students from the 1921 graduating class of La Grange High School held a 50-year reunion at Cottonwood Restaurant. Their special guest was W.W. Few of Midlothian, who began teaching here in the fall of 1921 after they had graduated. He went on to serve as principal and superintendent.
Three recent Fayette County high school graduates, who were preparing to pursue healthcare careers, received March of Dimes awards. They were: Beverly Joyce Dittrich, David Paul Mikus and Catherine Dell Smith.
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