Wildcat’s ‘4-Minute Offense’ Unhinges Leopards Lead

Stymied for 44 minutes, the Weimar Wildcats blew La Grange’s Leopards apart with two passing bombs at Weimar on Friday to produce a shocking 14-13 victory that left them perched atop the District 25AA standings with a 3-0 record. It was the burly Wildcats’ sixth straight win for the season and by far the closest they came to losing a game. Early in the game, the Leps dominated the field, scoring twice on passes from Neal Miller to Johnny Johnson. The La Grange team stonewalled the Wildcats throughout the second half as Weimar repeatedly got good field position. The clock showed 4:37 when Wildcat Steve Anders intercepted his second pass. Otis Henry took a handoff, dropped back and heaved a mighty throw to Larry Henry, who simply took the ball away from three La Grange defenders down at the 36, making a pass that travelled at least 50 yards in the air.

La Grange reached and surpassed its annual normal rainfall Monday night when a total of 1.17 inches brought the year’s sum to 37.11 inches. That was .59 of an inch over the U.S. Weather Service’s annual average rainfall estimate. The front that triggered the precipitation also brought the lowest temperature reading of the fall season, a nippy 41 degrees on Wednesday morning.

Milton Koenning of Winchester, chair of the Fayette County Program Building Committee, presented the 1974 Gold Star awards to Daniel Cernoch of La Grange and Carolyn Lehmann of Warda at the annual 4-H Achievement Day program.

The Texas Department of Health TB division announced it would conduct two free clinics to test for tuberculosis in Fayette County. The first was set for Schulenburg and the second at the agricultural building in La Grange.

Robert Lehmann was reelected as a director of the Fayette Soil and Water Conservation District for Subdivision No. 1 at the annual director election at Warda. Harvey Albers chaired the meeting, Milton Koenning served as secretary and Earl Stork and Melvin Pietsch were tally clerks.

A graduation service was being held in the First Presbyterian Church in La Grange for Walter R. Westcott, a new Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary graduate with a master of divinity degree. Following that event, Mr. Westcott, who served in La Grange in 1970 and 1971, was assigned as a Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan.

La Grange native Lt. Col. Harold F. Kuhn, a former assistant chief of staff, G-2/G-3, transferred to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve during a ceremony in the commanding general’s conference room at Parris Island, S.C. Lt. Kuhn, who had served in the Marine Corps for 24½ years, planned to live in Beaufort, S.C. with his family.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Franta honored their parents’ golden wedding anniversary with a reception at the Ellinger Chamber of Commerce hall on Sunday, Oct. 13. To make the occasion even more special, Mrs. Franta’s 100-year-old mother, Mrs. Ann Kovar of Plum, was able to attend.

Holy Rosary Parish in Hostyn honored their pastor, Rev. Msgr. A.J. Morkovsky, with a farewell social Friday night at the Hostyn Dining Hall. Msgr. Morkovsky, who was retiring on Oct. 31, planned to make his home in Hallettsville.

A funeral service was held for Dr. Guy B. Duff, a former pastor of First Presbyterian Church in La Grange.

The Bishop Forest Rangers took full advantage of St. Paul turnovers to pin a 27-14 loss to the Cardinals at Schulenburg Friday night. The victory sent Bishop Forest to the head of the class in TCIL District 2AA with a 2-0 record.

Fayette Memorial Hospital’s list of patients included: Mrs. James Roy Baca and baby boy, La Grange; Gerry Banik, Round Top; Otto Burger, La Grange; Mrs. Oscar Carlson, West Point; Claudia Dobbins, La Grange; Mrs. Lena Fein, La Grange; Robert E. Fellman, Fayetteville; Mrs. Emmott Johnson Sr., La Grange; Mrs. Otto Krueger, Round Top; Mrs. Max La Grone, Austin; Alvin Liebscher Jr., La Grange; Mrs. Joe Matula, La Grange; Darrell Matula, La Grange; C.M. Muras, La Grange; Mrs. Viola Potts, La Grange; Mrs. Noe Rodrigues, Giddings; George Scott, Muldoon; Helen Scott, La Grange; Mrs. L.J. Sulak, La Grange; Mrs.Agnes Vasek, La Grange; and Linda Ann Wolridge, Giddings.

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