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USPS No 000235
Final Edition!
12 Pages One Section ■ 1 Insert
- AWARD WINNER
yr 1 XT 1989 \__
LEE County Weekly t
Vol. 4 No. 41
Thursday, September 7, 1989
The Strong Clear Voice of Lee County
50 Cents
Established 1985
Geburtstag! Giddings will Celebrate its 118th birthday September 9
Geburtstag! Giddings birthday
celebration, will be held September
9 in Airline Park, beginning at
7:00 a.m. with the Barbecue cook-
off and concluding with a dance at
9:00 p.m. This 118th birthday of
the small Central Texas town will
feature a day filled with activities
for young and old, and everyone in
between.
The Barbecue cook-off will be
held in the park. Entries are to be
turned in to Quick Stop Grocery or
the Chamber office by noon on
September 8.
A Fun Run and Two Mile Walk
is scheduled on the Southeast side
of the Lee County Courthouse
square. Line up time is 8:30 a.m.
Registration will be held from 7:00
until 8:15 a.m. Entry fee is
$10.00 per person. Each entrant
will receive a Geburtstag T-shirt
and trophies will be awarded to the
first finisher in each group. Age
groups run from 8 and under to 60
plus.
Park grounds will open to the
public at 9:00 a.m. Admission is
$2.00 for adults, $1.00 for children
ages 6-12, and children five and
under will be admitted free.
Commercial booths and Arts and
Crafts Booths will remain open all
day. Anyone still wishing to have
a booth at Geburtstag! can contact
Adeline Wachsmann at First
National Bank or call the Chamber
office at 542-3455. A softball
tournament will be held all day on
the baseball field at the park.
This year's parade, featuring lots
of out-of-town floats and varied
entries, including the Shriners, will
be held at 10:00 a.m. through
downtown Giddings.
Miss Giddings Pageant is
scheduled for 12:00 at the covered
pavilion. A Little Miss and Mr.
Giddings division is included in the
annual contest.
A Horseshoe Pitching Contest
will be held at 1:00 p.m.; 2:00 -
Music by "The Good Times Band",
3:00 - varied children's activities,
including free balloons and a Pizza
eating contest; 4:00- Pet Show;
5:00 - Barbecue Awards and Meat
Auction; 6:30 - Music by German
Singers, a new feature this year;
7:00- Talent Workshop Dance
Routines; 8:00 - Arm Wrestling
and Old Timers Rodeo; and a dance
at 9:00 p.m. featuring "Texas
Unlimited".
Make your plans now to come
out and join the fun as Giddings
celebrates their 118th Geburtstag!
Vaccinate Pets at Geburtstag
This year we will hold a rabies
vaccination clinic the morning of
Geburtstag (Saturday, September 9)
from 10:30 A.M. til 3:30 P.M. at
the pavilion. A charge of $10 will
be assessed at the time of
vaccination by the attending
veterinarian. This is an important
health vaccination for your pet as
state law now prevents owners from
doing their own vaccination.
The "Pets on Parade" will begin
promptly at 4 P.M. The categories
to enter pets are: Most unusual
pet, best dressed, best personality,
most beautiful dog, most beautiful
cat, prettiest eyes (cat), prettiest
eyes (dog), longest tail, shortest
tail, smallcst/shortest pet,
largest/tallest and most talented.
Rules:
1. Children age 4 through the
5th grade are invited to enter.
2. Entry blanks must be returned
by September 5.
3. All pets must be on leash or
contained in some manner.
4. Each child may enter only
ONE pct.
5. An adult must be present with
the child.
6. Entrants MUST be at the
Airline Park covered pavilion by
3:30 P.M. on Saturday, September
9 to be checked in and numbered.
Come by the County Extension
Office and get an entry. ,
Subscriptions
to be refunded
Watch out! The child
y^
ill may be yours
School has begun and children arc
walking and riding their bicycles,
skateboards and whathaveyou to and
from the schools, while school
buses arc loading and unloading
youngsters several times a day.
Drivers must be more watchful than
ever now that the area schools are
again in session.
Giddings Police Chief Dennis
Oltmann said the 500 block of
South Williams at the elementary
school will be a north one-way
between 2:30 P.M. and 3:30 P.M.
Mondays through Fridays.
Oltmann said the one-way signs
will be set out each day by school
personnel. Immanuel Luther
School personnel will be setting
out one-way signs in the 200 and
300 blocks of North Grimes
between 7:30 A.M. and 4 P.M.
weekdays. The signs will indicate
the direction of the one-way.
Oltmann reminds drivers that
there is a 35 MPH speed limit
between the 1800 block and just
north of the city limits on U.S.
Highway 77 near the high school
when the caution lights are
flashing. The lights activate three
times each day between 7:15 A.M.
and 8 A.M., 11 A.M. and 12:45
P.M., and 3:15 P.M. and 4 P.M.
The police chief also reminded
drivers that County Road 114
between U.S. Highway 77 and the
Middle School turn-off has a 30
MPS speed limit.
According to the chief, traffic in
both directions must stop and stay
stopped while school buses load and
unload. Oltmann said traffic may
resume when the bus resumes
motion, the visual signal is turned
off or the bus driver motions for
traffic to continue.
The police chief said that tickets
will be issued to drivers who
violate speed limits, traffic direction
signs and bus regulations.
COMMUNITY SERVICE -The Giddings State School and Home Student Council were busy at the City Park
Thursday repainting and cleaning the grounds around the new equipment donated by McDonalds. This week they will
be repainting the speed bumps at the City Park and cleaning the grounds for Geburtstag. The student council is
looking for community projects in which they can be of help.
Lee Memorial Hospital pledges continued service
This is to inform all subscribers
to Lee County Weekly that
subscription • money will be
refunded to all subscribers desiring
one, upon request This will be the
last published issue of the paper.
All subscriptions renewed in
August will automatically be
refunded the full $12.00
subscription price. A check should
be received by each subscriber
within the next two weeks.
All other subscribers should
either come by the Lee County
Weekly office, 164 So. Manse,
between now and September 15, to
receive a prorated refund on the
balance of their subscription, or
inform us BY MAIL that a refund
is desired. Simply drop us a card or
note, including your full name and
address and your money will be
cheerfully refunded. Address your
request to Lee County Weekly,
P.O. Box 478, Giddings, Tx.
78942.
We regret any inconvenience this
may cause anyone and we sincerely
thank you each and every one for
your past patronage.
Our beleaguered local hospital
recently completed 40 years of
service to the citizens of Giddings
and Lee County. Despite repeated
public attacks by a group of
concerned taxpayers, the Board of
Directors and Staff of Lee Memorial
Hospital continue to pledge that,
with the support of the people, we
will take every necessary step to
ensure that this hospital will
provide quality health care for the
residents of this area.
Lee Memorial is not the only
facility which has had serious
financial difficulties. Countless
hospitals, large and small, arc faced
with similar situations. A number
of them have closed their doors
already but many, like Lee
Memorial, are fortunate enough to
have dedicated individuals who are
determined to continue operations
until the regulatory reimbursement
problems can be resolved. Senator
Lloyd Bentscn, Senator Phil
Gramm and Congressman J.J. Jake
Pickle, and a number of State
officials have made commitments
to their fellow Texans to work
toward finding adequate solutions.
In a newsletter mailed February
1989, Senator Bentscn told of the
Quaity for Rural Hospitals Act of
1989 which is being cosponsored
by a number of Senators who wish
to establish a single Medicare
reimbursement rate which will treat
all hospitals, rural and urban,
equitably. Until this can be
accomplished and fully
implemented, the small rural
hospital serving a disproportionate
number of Medicare patients will
need to continually seek outside
financing and protection to offset
financial losses caused by treating
these older and disabled patients.
Is it worth the effort to try to
remain open? Sixty percent of
those voting in the November
General Election felt that the effort
is worth it. Over 40 years ago a
group of citizens gave of their hard
earned income and resources to
establish Lee Memorial Hospital
for themselves and generations to
come. Their sacrifices at that time
established a health care facility
which has been used by thousands
over the years. With the continued
support of the citizens of this area,
the Board of Directors, Staff and
Friends of Lee Memorial Hospital
will continue to make whatever
sacrifices are necessary to ensure
that the founders' vision will not
die, but that our hospital will be a
viable provider of quality health
care for many generations to come.
Editors note - This article was
suhmitted to Lee County Weekly
by the Lee Memorial Hospital in
answer to some of the charges
against them by local citizens.
Alcohol and drug
coalition to meet
Four years ago-----
A coalition of concerned citizens
with the cities of Dimebox,
Giddings and Lexington will have
a kick-off meeting Monday,
September 11, at 7 P.M. on the
second floor of the Lee County
Courthouse.
The Lee County
Commissioners Court recently
made an agreement with the Lee
County Council on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse to create the coalition
to help promote a drug free
environment for the youth of Lee
County.
The coalition hopes to identify
the concerns of citizens as they
relate to alcohol and drug abuse,
determine the extent of alcohol and
drug usc/abusc, identify all
elements within the community
which deal with alcohol and drug
usc/abusc and recommend
programs to coordinate existing
resources and programs related to
alcohol and drug usc/abusc, ie,
awareness/education programs.
GRAND OPENING -Joe Kirtland cuts the ribbon at the grand opening of his new business "MicroCom’
Representatives of the Giddings Chamber of Commerce and Star Tel attended the ceremony. MicroCom offers an
answering service, mobile telephone system, paging system and long distance service to customers.
On the front page of the first
edition of Lee County Weekly,
published December 5, 1985, the
late John Socha explained our
editorial policy, dedicated the paper
to the quest of excellence, and
promised we would be a soap-box
from which everyone would have
the opportunity to "sound-off." We
tried to do just that.
On the front page Milton G.
York was being memorialized with
a plaque at the court house,
honoring him as a Lee County
Pioneer and Pastor Anne Kohlmeier
was being welcomed as the new
pastor at St. John's Lutheran
Church in Dime Box. Pastor Anne
is now a familiar and thoroughly
ensconced part of our community.
Bill Brademan was being inducted
into the Southwest Texas State
University's T-Association Hall of
Honor. He's been our across-the-
street neighbor for all four years
we've been in business.
Blue Santa was asking for
volunteers to help brighten some
child's Christmas. They still do,
every year.
A lot has changed in that four
years, but a lot has stayed the same.
The oil boom really did end, and
with it, the easy money and high-
rolling good times. But most
things and most people stayed the
same.
We came, we gave it our best
shot, and now we'll be gone. We
have enjoyed our brief stay on the
Lee County Scene and hope, even
in some small way, we contributed
to the community we live in while
we were in business.
Commissioners to
discuss recycling
The Lee County
Commissioners will meet with
the representative of a recycling
company during the regular
meeting Monday at 8:30 A.M.
The Commissioners scheduled
the meeting at the request of a
north Lee County resident.
Karen Whipely, Executive
Dirctor with the Capital Area
Small Business Assistance Center,
is scheduled to address the
commissioners at 10 A.M.
Members of the court will also
discuss a tax refund for Rodney
Mundine, Sherman Mundine
Estate, Felma Mundine, Doris S.
Ferguson, Albert Truitt, Dorothy
Ann Truitt, Leroy Truitt, and
Thomas Truitt, consider a
telephone company right-of-way
and set the tax rate.
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Freeman, Susie. Lee County Weekly (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1989, newspaper, September 7, 1989; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1665793/m1/1/: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.