Zapalac & Dopslauf Awarded 4-H Gold Star Honors

October 14-17, 1975

Milton Koenning of Winchester presented Kenneth Zapalac, a member of the Ellinger 4-H Club and Sharon Dopslauf, a La Grange 4-H’er, with Gold Star awards at the 1975 Fayette County 4-H Achievement Day program. Gold Stars represented the highest honors earned in 4-H. Both Kenneth and Sharon were nine-year 4-H members. Runners-up were William Ernestes of Swiss Alp and Kathleen Moerbe of La Grange. Mr. Koenning, who chaired the County Program Building Committee, and his wife, Audrey, had served 21 years as county 4-H adult leaders. They were presented with the coveted Diamond Clover Award for their assistance as 4-H leaders.

An early morning fire destroyed a small frame house in thenorthernpartofthecity.Firefighters got the call at 4:40 a.m., but the building on E. Pearl St. was aflame when they arrived in the dense fog. All that could be done was to keep the blaze from spreading to adjacent structures. The property was owned by Victoria Davis and occupied by Minnie Mae Keeling, who, fortunately, was not at home at the time. Firefighters received two more alarm calls simultaneously. The first was a grass fire on the Joe Ryza Estate at Rabbs Prairie, where about an acre was burned before the blaze was extinguished. The cause was likely an aerosol can that exploded in some burning trash. The next fire was on the Joe Barta Jr. farm at Ammannsville, where a grass blaze consumed around 25 acres of pasture and meadow. The fire was extinguished before it reached a large stack of round hay bales. A short in an electric fence was the probable cause of that blaze.

It was a great Sunday for the First Baptist Church of La Grange when the congregation burned the remaining note owed on the sanctuaryeducation building in a special ceremony during the morning worship service. This celebration was made possible through a gift from the estate of the late L.H. and Mamie B. Scholz, charter members of the church when it was organized on April 16, 1920.

Bishop Patrick F. Flores, auxiliary to Archbishop Furey of the San Antonio Archdiocese, was coming to Schulenburg to dedicate the prayer room recently completed at Bishop Forest High School.

William Schwartz The service was to be part of the school’s annual homecoming activities.

The Texas Insurance Board in Austin unanimously approved a 17%, $112.8 million increase in auto rates, which was expected to raise the annual cost of insuring a typical car with standard coverages from $8 to $43 in different parts of the state. In Fayette County, the estimated annual cost for coverage would go up $14 per year.

Funeral services were held for: Mrs. Edna Kaltwasser, 83, of La Grange; Mrs. Mathilde Maeckel, 69, of Industry; Mrs. Maude E. Baker, 68, of West Point; Walter Marburger, 83, a Winedale native; Mrs. Alma Witt, 76, a La Grange native; Mrs.Anita Schulze, 76, a native of Warrenton; and Reinhardt M. Fischer, 70, of Ledbetter.

The Rev. Frank Earl Fuller III, vicar of St. James Episcopal Church in La Grange since July of 1975, was to be ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests by the Rt. Rev. J. Milton Richardson, Episcopal Bishop of Texas on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

E.B. (Tex) Mayer was appointed chair of the La Grange Bicentennial Festival Committee. He succeeded R. J. (Dick) Edwards. Mr. Mayer was one of five committee chairs who successfully conducted the Fayette Memorial Hospital fund drive some years before.

The multi-talented La Grange Leopards had everything working for the second week in a row as they bowled over the young Giddings Buffaloes in Giddings, 51-6. The stonewall defense that had stood the Leps in good stead all season was evident from the start, but again it was the volatile Leopard offense that impressed the crowd. The game was, to put it mildly, one-sided, as the Buffs were totally outclassed.

Trustees of the Fayetteville Independent School District authorized the purchase of a new 54-passenger bus. The board also accepted the resignation of school bus driver Clay Shannon and the employment of Clement Gully to fill the vacancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kunkel of Houston celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Carmine Hall. Orville Kunkel and Leverne Sommers were married Oct. 1, 1950, at Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Carmine by the Rev. A. T. Kluge.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Minzenmeyer of the Swiss Alp community celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 12, with a church devotional in their honor at United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Swiss Alp, followed by an open house at the church fellowship hall. Their married children, John and Jan Minzenmeyer, Elmo and Johnelle Minzenmeyer and Martin and Ruth Gebert, preceded Mr. and Mrs. Minzenmeyer into the church for the ceremony.

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