The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise from Seguin, Texas • Page 21

From pg. 8 Sims on taxation bute to all taxing 1 method of Valuui anUa! Mtng tonl1 It says THE SEGUIN GAZETTE JUNE 21,1979 SEC, 2, KJ. 9 FOUMTION to ao tne job themselves not sub-contract Dart of it tn the bureaucrats to write rules that It looks like there are strong federalism political TeXaS Ving toward a slow toStaSg of the decision making process away from the local tax wS.fi? JS 6 centralized Bureaucrats in Austin While in the meantime leaving the outer shell of the assessor stem intac witta hoped for federalism situation where the local tax assessor lenf doing ledg ei left out of the policy decision making process. Family Tree From pg. 8 for several years now." That same afternoon, Clements announced that mandatory gasoline conservation orders will be issued if Texans don't reduce their consumption voluntarily.

"We will start out on the basis of 'pretty please with sugar on and hope that everyone will help," Clements said of his plans to conserve gasoline. "If that doesn't work, we're going to go to some odd-even day rationing and other things that will be mandatory in News from our State Capital nature." Asked to elaborate, Clements said he might include a prohibition of gasoline for cars with tanks more than half full. He said he will release his reallocation plan in detail later this week. Juneteenth Bill Signed As members of the Black Caucus and some 250 spectators looked on Wednesday, the Governor signed into law a bill designating June 19 as the first legal state holiday honoring black Early Book on Indian Wars tells another story of this area By Mary C. Bond THE FOLLOWING biography of an early pioneer of this area was taken from the book, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1822-1874 by John Henry Brown, published in 1874 This most important research book has recently been reprinted and is available from the Southern Historical Uth Carol ina Th biography is of Ernst BLUMBERG, the progenitor of many who live in the Comal-Guadalupe County area.

"Ernst Blumberg, New Braunfels. Blumberg a well known pioneer of New Braunfels, Texas, came to America direct to Fredericksburg, by way of Galveston with his parents in 1845. He soon, in 1846, settled on a farm near New Braunfels with his father, Carl Blumberg. Carl Blumberg was born near the town of Kulm, in Prussia. He was an educated man, a professional tutor, but as a colonist came to the then new country to engage in agriculture, hoping to better his fortunes.

He located five miles below New Braunfels, on the Guadalupe River. He brought with him to this country a wife and eight children: Ernst, whose names heads this sketch; Frederick, a citizen of Seguin, Texas; Julius, who resided at San Francisco, until his death in 1893; Betsy, who married in Texas and died some years since; Henrietta (now Mrs. Rev. Gustav Elley); and Hulda (now Mrs Michael Koepsel of Guadalupe Valley). Carl Blumberg lived on the farm until his death, which occurred in 1856 of yellow fever." "Ernst Blumberg pursued farming in its various branches until recently, when he practically retired from active business pursuits.

He continues, however, to nominally act as the local agent of the Lone Star Brewing Company. He married, in 1859, Miss Margaret Zipp. She is a native of Prussia and a daughter of John Zipp, who was a New Braunfels pioneer in 1846. The family name is a familiar one in the community. Mr.

and Mrs. Blumberg have ten lg ld Ernst Martha, Henry, August, Matilda, William, Lydia, Ferdinand, Olga and Pauline." Em ma a died some years ago. Blumberg made his home permanently in New Braunfels in 1891 He is a progressive and popular citizen and one who has done much for his section and Southwest Texas QUERIES: Mrs. Maude E. Sellman 2517 Gates Redondo Beach, California 90278: GREEN(e) born ca 15 March 1805, where? 1 on To wnship, Genesse County, New York, ca 1830 Son Almond Chester GREEN born 1831 who was his mother? emancipation.

Those in attendance later sat under shade trees on the Capitol grounds, ate watermelon and watched members of the Black Caucus take potshots at one another over the new holiday. Objections to the bill came from Dallas Rep. Clay Smothers who earlier had called a press conference to label it "a fraudulent holiday." "Most of us were taught by elderly blacks that we were freed Jan. 1, 1865, but that the information of freedom was deliberately withheld until June 19 so that the harvest of cotton crops was completed," Smothers told reporters. The bill's sponsor, Houston Rep.

Al Edwards, explained that June 19 was the day in 1865 when Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed in Galveston and issued Lincoln's general emancipation order. Dallas Rep. Paul Ragsdale, a leader of the Black Caucus, told reporters that Smothers did not fit in the caucus and "like a cancer, he should be cut out of the Black Caucus and out of the Legislature." The holiday is still not on the same level as other state LARRY LIPPE.

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TEXAS 78155 (512) 379-0677 Louis Brenner Manager Edmund Naumann David Neuman People who When you make funeral arrangements and direct Goetz Funeral Home to handle the services, you will be assured of sympathetic consideration. Each member of our staff feels a personal as well as a professional concern for you and your family at a difficult time. This is one of many ways in which we are continuing a tradition of service to the community since 1906. FUNERAL HOME 713 North Austin Street 379-2313 oete Lee Tate Jim Wilson William Wolff Don't dare read these Questions! if you're upaettable OUR SEGUIN area provides an excellent platform from which to study the panorama of the series of problems now gripping not only our own state but the nation and entire world as well. Granted the privilege of living in such a healthy environment, so near to the traumas of urban problems but thus far free from their provided a showcase and somewhat of a field study of current events that plague the entire world.

Those who take the time to read and contemplate the truly important stories in their newspapers as well as those reported by radio and television most certainly should be becoming more confused with the passage of time. The old-time formulas of goodness and truth, earned rewards, kindness and respect, lawfulness and sincerity don't seem to be as important as in the we can believe what we're observing from our grandstand view here in Seguin and Guadalupe County. Permit us then to briefly infiltrate your minds with a series of questions related to issues of the day which tend to emphasize such a point: Have greed, and laziness, and the quest for unearned and undeserved wealth finally gotten us all into irreversible trouble? Is the gas shortage for real? Or have the huge petroleum countries of the world merely decided to try seizing everything? And what about other product shortages coming shortly before great increases in price? Are they real? Could today's inflation be a contrived thing even involving major interests in our own country? How're we ever going to halt the rise in prices when no one, certainly including top state and national officials, can find an answer for the never-ceasing demands for more and more and more by today's labor unions? And industry? And government itself? What's ever going to be done about the growing welfare and unemployment situation which, on the one side, sees reports of more and more people being without jobs and on the other sees business and industry unable to find enough prospects who will leave the unemployment lines to join a business to even try learning a real profession? What's going to be dpne about government agencies and agents who show almost total contempt for the private sector whose taxes pay their inflated salaries? the cost of education reaching new heights annually, are we satisfied with the youngsters now graduating from colleges and universities? Is much of government bureaucracy nothing more than a ridiculous racket pilfering from the pockets of taxpayers? And has today's gigantic and growing bureaucracy become such an intimidating threat as to cast fear into both the Congressional and Executive branches in Washington? Why does government take out its personal frustrations and fury on the small to medium size individuals and businesses of this country while being totally inept in meeting head-to-head with other world powers and even the sharp lawyers of big business and industry? The world ultimately must respect strength and power: then why has this country for the past 39 years seemed to have reflected weaknesses that today has even some small countries thinking 'we can be We could go on and on with such questions. So could many of our readers; but too many at one time lends further confusion to an already-too-complex series of questions for answering in the first place Do we personally think the ominous threats of today are so far out of hand that only a major disaster will reverse the trend? Or that our country is nearing an era of total bleakness of social and economic ruin? Certainly not. But we do have a growing mass of problems.

And the only way we'll ever be able to start solving them is to throw them out on the table for everyone to see. Admitting we have problems and differences and weaknesses is that necessary first step toward some day finding a cure. holidays. Passage of the bill came too late in the session to be worked into the general appropriations bill, so Juneteenth is an optional holiday for state agencies and banks. Edwards said the holiday will be included in the appropriations 1981.

bill Courts Bill Vetoed An omnibus courts bill that would have established 20 new state district courts was vetoed last- week by Gov. Clements who indicated the bill deprived him of several judicial appoint- ments. The bill outlined 11 courts to be filled by appointment, nine by elections in, 1980 Under Texas '(aw, district court judges are usually elected, but when-, new courts are created, the judgeship is usually appointed by the governor. ANNOUNCING: THE FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GUADALUPE VAUIY EUCTRK OWPBUTIVE FRIDAY, JUNE 22,1979 APACHE FOOTBALL STADIUM 1602 ST. JOSEPH ST.

GONZAIES, TEXAS 6:30 P.M. MIMBER UGSTMTMN WUTHERUATWN EXNIHT 8:00 P.M. BUSINESS MEETING Featuring Special Guest Humorist CHARLIE FLOWERS 24 VALUABLE ATTENDANCE PRIZES Worth Mora Than $1200 ALSO flirao $25 Savings Bonds For Chidron TOP PRIZE: 19-inch Portable Color TV Second Prize: $150 Cosh Third Prize: Also, Free Sandwiches, Hot Dogs, Frfto Pies (Limit Two For Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc..