REMEMBER WHEN?
50 Years Ago from The Fayette County Record
August 3, 1971
Three youngsters, aged 14, 12 and 10, admitted to breaking into the La Grange utilities office and the county agricultural building on Friday night. The case was broken on Saturday about 7 p.m. when Walter Kneip returned to his store and found a youth inside hiding behind a desk. The lad later admitted involvement in the two other break-ins and identified his two accomplices. One of the boys was an out-of-towner visiting La Grange.
Fayette County’s commissioners worked late into the night to approve a precinct-redistricting plan to realign the county along the one-man, one-vote rule. The new alignment placed one-fourth of the county’s total of 7,938 registered voters in each of the four new precincts, give or take a few people. The new lines were drawn in a manner that disturbed existing voting precincts as little as possible. There also was a possibility that two more voting boxes might be added to make a total of 26. Precinct 1 was the greater La Grange area and Rutersville; Precinct 2: Carmine, Round Top, Warrenton, Fayetteville, Willow Springs, Ellinger, Nechanitz, Warda and Winchester; Precinct 3: Flatonia, Engle, Muldoon, West Point, Black Jack, Plum, Cistern and Hostyn (the latter a new election box); and Precinct 4: Schulenburg, Ammannsville, Swiss Alp, Dubina and Holman.
Approximately 35 potential customers of the Fayette Water Supply Association attended a meeting Thursday night at the WOW Hall in Muldoon. The countywide proposal was detailed by local Farmers Home Administration county supervisor Clarence R. Matula. Almost everyone took home a survey form and some joined the association that night. Other rural residents or landowners interested in domestic water were invited to see one of the steering committee members for survey sheets. Once filled out, they were to be returned with the $100 membership fee. The next in a series of countywide meetings was to be at the Cistern Hall on August 10.
The La Grange Knights of Columbus was sponsoring a benefit social at Sacred Heart School for Clement Trlicek, who had been burned badly at his house. It was estimated that he would continue to be treated at the burn unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas for six to nine months and be away from work for approximately 15 months. Trilicek’s employer, Tex Mayer of Consolidated Smokehouse, donated a smoked turkey and six smoked fryers to the benefit. Mr. Mayer also donated 20 turkeys to a benefit turkey shoot at Kovar’s Place near Plum at the end of August.
Schulenburg’s Lone Stars and Arlington’s Cardinals battled through nine scoreless innings before the Schulenburgers crashed over the game-winning counter in the last of the 10th. Two bases were loaded and one was out when Leo Hollas boomed a single into right that plated Richard Hollas, who had opened the frame with a walk.
The Roaring Twenties was the theme of the 33rd annual Schulenburg Dairy & Horse Show and Homecoming Festival on August 7-8 at Wolters Park. Among the featured attractions were dairy cattle and horse show events, a hay show, kiddie parade, swimming show, homecoming dance, two parades and the appearance of KTBC’s Parker Jack on both days of the festival.
Robbers, who gained entrance to Flatonia Flour & Feed Store by breaking through the back door on Monday night, took between $4 and $5 in change. Deputy Sheriffs August Brunner of Flatonia and Walker Chernosky of La Grange were conducting an investigation.
All junior high and high school boys who intended to play football at La Grange in the fall were reminded by head coach Butch Blume to get their physicals at the clinic of Dr. H.C. Paine. The coaching staff was attending the annual Texas High School Coaches Association school in Fort Worth.
Johnny Bush and The Bandoleros were being featured at a special dance at the Round Up Club Hall at the Fairgrounds in La Grange. Bush was the first nationally known recording artist the club had booked. County Judge David M. Murray set aside Friday, August 6 as “Round Up Club Day in Fayette County.” The Green Thumbers com
The Green Thumbers completed construction of a brand new bandstand at the Fayette County Fairgrounds. Octagon-shaped and 21 feet six inches across and three feet tall, it was built of hollow tile. A concrete slab was to be poured for the floor. Those working on the project included: John H. Koenig, Alfred Andreas, John Stahmer, Elton Wolff, Otto Schueler and Otto and Frank Hartmann.
A funeral service was held for Shirley Elaine Ahlers Hausmann, 35, of Swiss Alp.
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