The Hays Daily News from Hays, Kansas • Page 8

PAOE EIGHT HATS DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1964 The Muggers Club' By Kitlir Dale When it is coffee time in Assaria, Kansas, no matter the time of day. a unique custom is observed. The old decorated shaving mugs have come back, only in Assaria. it has become a coffee mug! There arc. still a few cafes which are hold-outs for nickel cups of coffee and the little Swedish Cafe managed by the owner and operator, Roy Brax.

is one of the rarities. There is a catch lo it however. The sign on the door reads a Swedish word meaning welcome. Mr. Brax is proud of his Swedish ancestory and customs, and every Monday and Wednesday he and his wife Alice present "Smorgasbord" that to be authentic must be Scandinavian in spirit and in recipe, and prepared by Swedes.

Back of the counter inside the cafe, is a peg board wall fitted with numerous shelves attached to the wall on which arc displayed an array of coffee mugs. When the customer comes in he stops behind the counter and without hesitation picks up a certain cup, carries it to the coffee bar, fills and then seats himself at the counter. The waitress Will bring him Swedish Kaffee Brod bread), Ostkaka '(Swedish cheese cake) or Pepparkakor (spice cookie) which ever he or she prefers. That morning or afternoon cup of coffee will cost a stranger 10 cents but not so for a lot of local and area clientele if they belong Official Card It a member of The Club cind shall continue as such as long as he lives. Coffee Cup Cafe Anarla, Kaniai Ray C.

Brax to Ray Brnx Muggers Club! Following a political election, Brax raised the price of coffee to 10 cents a cup but after a happy compromise formed the Muggers Club. Membership in the club is $1.50. For this you get an individual cup with your name on it and from then on your Java, costs five cents a cup for the rest of your life. The cups arc made by another Assaria businessman, Paul Bates, using native Kansas clay. Brax coffee sales have soared ever since, the idea, is so popular that in a town of nearly 300, there arc, now over 200 cups and he is now wondering where lo put them all.

There are many Swedes in Assaria and naturally the moniker "Swede" was a coveted one, but Everette Shogren is the only one whose cup is engraved with that nickname. If the customer is a Highway Patrolman he picks the blue cup that matches his uniform. The minister's cup has a cross on it. Since Mr. Bates runs a feed store he chose sheaves of wheat to decorate his cup and others are marked with nicknames of their owners 01 symbols of their profession.

When a. member of the club dies his cup remains on the shelf turned upside down. Along with running his business Ray Brax is justice of the. peace of Assaria and is in charge of the historical section of that, township Most, of all ho is proud of his Muggers Club because in the little Swedish community of Assaria the members put strong efforl toward upholding its Code 01 Ethics. WILL HEAD STAFF OF COLLEGE (Candy) Mitchell, Wichita; Linda Skelton, Lamed; and Sammye May, Hays, will head the editorial staff of the 1965 Reveille at Fort Hays State College as editor, layout editor and assistant editor.

The 336-page volume is staffed by Journalism students and volunteers, with Mrs. Katherine Rogers of the journalism staff as adviser. The book is a consistant first-class winner in national competition for books in colleges and universities with similar enrollment. Messengers Unsuspecting Police Nab Mastermind Behind Bank Robberies Houston, April caviar-loving bridegroom, charged as the mastermind of a bizarre scheme to rob four Houston banks with the aid of unsuspecting mes- said Saturday he had planned to go into business for opening up a bank." Only one of the messengers, however, managed to deliver the cash, about $12.000 to a mystery man who hired him. John L.

Burke, 27, of Las Vegas, was charged with bank robbery before U.S. Commissioner Billy Costa, who set bond at $50,000. It was not posted. "I had enough money for me and my wife to last a couple months," Burke told newsmen. to identify, told detectives a man answering the description broadcast after the robbery was living in the apartment.

After checking the license number of the man car and getting information on him from various sources in Las Vegas police moved in. DEATHS Mrs. Emma Morell A 13-year WaKeeney resident, ofiMrs Emma Morell, died Saturday morning at the Trego-Lemke Hos- 'And in a couple of months, I was pital, WaKeeney, at the age of 69 to planning business, bank." Burke, who identified himself HS 9 former gossip columnist for a Las Vegas magazine, was arrest- go into some kind of Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. maybe opening up ajMouday at Hendrieks Funeral Chapel, WaKeeney. Rev.

C. E. Bodenhamer. First Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Collver ceme- 2hapcl, Hays.

Burial will be in Mt. Allen Ceme tcry. Dr. Orlo Choguill, Presbyterian hurch, will officiate. Friends may call at Brock's after 2 p.m.

today until service Lime. Survivors include a son, Michael olconda, three daughters Miss Marjoric Montgomery, Win ncmuccn, Mrs. Cecilia Dick Huntington Park, Mrs Sarah Calls, Winncmucca, Nev. ive grandchildren; a brother, Joe Hays, a sister, Mrs. Mary Crissman, Hays.

Margaret Kuhn Purely Personal Mrs. Polyanna Kerbs of Hays was among: 26 pharmacists who attended the 14th biannual Pharmacy Extension Court conducted the University of Kansas at Garden City Thursday. Mrs. Ruth Harris, whose, daugh- er, Mrs. James Garrigue.s and her 'amily lived at Anchorage, Alaska, las brought to the News office copies of the Anchorage Daily Times published the day of the March 28 and Tuesday 'ollowing-, March 31.

Detailed ac- 'ounts of the horrors of the quake ire in the first paper which was published for the Anchorage Times at Fairbanks. The second paper wns published again in the estab- ishment of the Anchorage Times ind it begins to pick up the pieces of the disaster. Effects of the earthquake are not minimized in the papers but the tone of all the stories is optimistic and tinged with the flavor of a. determina- ion to build better a Anchorage than had been known before. Mr.

and Mrs. Lnrry Gene Her! who are teaching at Herl is the former Alma Schenk daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Schenk-both took part in "The Belle of the West" a musical comedy opera presented by the PTA last week at Downs. Participating in the play were adults from the Downs Community, parents and teachers alike, as a money raising project and for their own enjoyment.

In a letter to the News Mrs. Herl said she and her husband are enjoying their work at Downs very much and want everyone to know they are enjoying livi'ng and working in the Downs community. Carol Jean Kauffman, daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. Howard G.

Kauffman, Dodge City, formerly of Hays, has been awarded a scholarship to Dodge City College for 1964-65. She is completing hei freshman year at the college anc the grant will cover books and fee? for her sophomore year. She will major in art education and hei scholarship is a grant from tht Dodge City Educators Council. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Peter C. Dechant, 500 East 18th Street, Hays. A lifetime resident of the Victoria community, Mrs. Margaret Kuhn, died Saturday afternoon at St. Anthony Hospital, Hays, at the nge of 79.

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Fidelia Church, Victoria. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will lie in state after 2 p.m.

today until service time. The D. of I. will hold a Rosary service at 8 p.m. Monday at Cline's.

Born at Victoria Jan. 18, 1885, Mrs. Kuhn was a member of Christian Mothers and Third Order of St. Francis. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs.

Joseph Hammerschmidt, Victoria; Mrs. Louise Dinkel, Victoria; Mrs. Adam Kasick, Kansas City; Mrs. Ed Schmidtberger, Victoria; three sons, Richard, Victoria; Ed Victoria; Gilbert Kuhn, Victoria. Her husband and three sons preceded her in death.

Wellington Man Killed, Three Persons Injured Wellington, April -A Wellington man was killed and three persons were injured, none critically, in a collision on a rural road eight miles east and a mile south of Wellington Friday evening. Curtis A. Zimmerman, 63, driver of a pickup truck, was killed. Miss Marin Morton, 18, the other driver, and Danny Raymond, 15, were on their way to the junior- senior prom at Oxford High School in the car. Miss Morton was taken lo an Arkansas City hospital, young Raymond to a Winfield hospital.

Roy Fowlie, about 50, Wellington, riding with Zimmerman, was taken to a Wellington hospital. Four Hays pharmacists: C. A Harkncss Richard Eggert, Lee Quintana. and Leonard Schenk were among 44 pharmacists anc five sponsored students who at tended a Pharmacy Extension conducted Saturday by the University of Kansas at Salina. Earlier meetings at Wichita on Wednesday, Garden City, Thursday were attended by 67 and 14 sponsored students in Wich ita and 26 pharmacists and 3 spon sored students at Garden City.

Elderly Man Wants Release From Prison Montgomery, April the thick, dingy walls Alabama's state prison is a man whose age is somewhere betwee 90 and 100. His name is Alber Burkett and he's been an inmat nearly 38 years. Burkett lives only to be fre again; it's the only hope he has The Pardon Parole Board want him to be free. But Burkett seem doomed to die in prison. State law prohibits releasing prisoner on parole unless he eithe has a job or has someone to tak care of him.

Burkett has neither He's too old to work, and as fa as he knows he has no family lef The law also prohibits him fron leaving prison for the welfare roll Burkett became involved in poolroom argument 38 years ag Friday. He shot at a man bu missed. He went home, armed him self with a shotgun and a rifle an headed back for the poolroom. On the way back he encountere two deputy sheriffs who tried stop him. A gunfight started an Deputy Andy Taylor fell deac Burkett was sentenced for life ir prison.

at a Houston terv. I Mrs. Morell, admitted to the hos- saying pjt a i Friday after suffering a heart ed early Saturday apa'-l mcnt. Po'ice quoted Burke the first purchase with his new: aUacki moved to WaKecnoy from riches was a three-pound jar of Collycr after her husband, Walter, ravier which he ate for lunch died i 19.1:5. Friday.

Survivors include two daughters, Officers said Burke signed aiMrs. Max Ruby I Murphy. Quinter; statement admitting he planned toiMrs. Gerald (Ardis) Tomanek, rob the firir suburban banks Fri-jHays; a son, Ross, WaKeeney; two clay by sending messengers with sisters, Mrs. Mollic Huonorgardt, letters threat filing children of Mrs.

Elizabeth Glantz; Bi- tellcrs with cloaih unless the money son; two brothers. George Burbach. was handed over. Ben Burbach, Messengers appearing at the Hoyt. Harrisburg National.

Spring Bivich Bank and Park 'onal got nothing, but one eel at Bclfort State A lifetime Ellis County resident re the teller stuffed about $12, -j Douglas Doon Montgomery. in a bag. Idled Saturday morning at his homo D. Montgomery BC- 000 When detectives arrested Burke, at 407 they found more than $10.000 in his room and $494 in his billfold. age of East 7th 71.

Hays, at the Funeral services be at 2 A tipster, whom police declined p.m. Monday at Brock's North Hill TENTER PEPSI-COLA $1850,000 SHOPPING SPREE blank in ewy carton cf Pepsi Teem PEPSI-COLA GO. OF HAYS TUNE IN KAYS RADIO EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 2:05 FOR THE DRAWING PEPSI PARTY. er: FOR MOTHER'S DAY vi Mother a special thrill when IHT lovinjif family remembers with Milk and Honey Chocolates on Mother's Day. Choose her favorite today Mother's Day May I Oth HAYS, KANSAS niit uttfc 6d Kiltft, he married In 1864 and was the father of nine children, the late Moritz, well-known farmer of the Victoria vicinity, having been one of them.

Thomas Baier came to Kansas in 1888 and settled near Gorham. His wife had died in Illinois in 1881. He lived ten years after coming west and died at the home of his son, Moritz Baier in 1898. He is buried in the Victoria cemetery. Thomas Baler's grandson, William Baier, has an accumulation of family papers, all in German script which he is using as a basis for a family history that he has traced back to 1792.

He hopes to obtain even earlier facts of the Baier family life in Germany and to include them in a chronicle he plans to write. PASSPORT DATED 1854. A passport issued to Thomas Baier one hundred and ten years ago at Dieterskirch Wurttemberg, Germany, and found by his grandson, William Baier of Victoria recently among old family papers. Victoria Man Passport fiy Grandfather In 1854 Leavenworth. He later obtained work as a barrel maker, hand cutting the staves which held the barrels together at Farina, 111.

There Experimental Crash Highly Successful Phoenix, April Despite the severity of Friday's DC7 airliner crash, safety officials say that if there had been any passengers aboard they could have survived. They termed the experimental crash "highly successful" and said it was "almost as we planned it." The crash turned out to be much more severe and spectacular than had been projected. Instead of coming to rest on ths side of a 150-foot high hill, the four-engine craft skimmed over the peak and landed on the other side. A fire broke out as the fuselage ruptured, but it apparently caused little damage to the test. Ike Hoover, an official of the Federal Aviation Agency from Washington, said the crash would have been survivable.

He said passengers in the fuselage from the wings back could have lived. Just unloaded a truckload of New DEMPSTER Planters Fertilizer Attachments Tool Bars Shanks. GET YOURS NOW! Special wholesale cash carry pi-ices. Set them up yourself I WEILERT'S In going through some old fam- papers one clay last week, William Baier, who lives in the George Grant "Villa" near Victoria, ran across a document which called up memories of his grandfather, the late Thomas Baier. This was a passport used by his grandfather when he left Germany in 1854 for a home in the United States.

The passport, dated April 10, 1854, written in German script, now 110 years old, gives the essential facts of the young manhood of Thomas Baier who was born in 1834 but it fails to tell the more interesting things which were a part of his young manhood and which William Baier recalls as family history. Thomas Baier, the eleventh of a family of 14 children, lived in Wurrtemburg, Germang. There were four boys, all of whom came to Kansas and who never saw one another again after landing here. Arriving in the United States Thomas Baier got a job with the government driving mules in a pack train from St. Louis to Fort It was good news to hear that Joe Doerfler is a candidate for County Commissioner- A man who has served the county and the people for many years should make him capable, understanding and able to cope with people's problems to the best of his ability and this office.

A vote for him will be greatly appreciated. JOE J. SANDERS Pol. Adv. the newest thing in banking is AUTOMATION The Hays National Bank the first bank in Western Kansas to have auto- mation.

Deposits and checking ac- count records never leave the bank. Automation eliminates the human er- ror, too. It costs no more to do busi- ness wi'th 3 fully automated bank, temporarily located at J3 fast Uth. hays national bank I I F. I.

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