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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1949
Page
3
Llano County obtains a referendum on establishing a soil conservation district after a State Soil Conservation Board meeting. County Agent C. V. Robinson was notified as the election date will be announced later.
A free home freezing demonstration will be held at the Giddings High School gymnasium Monday at 1 45 p m Rita Holdridge of Houston will lead the event in cooperation with the Giddings homemaking class. Home makers and demonstration club members are urged to attend.
The turkey remains the sole native American member of the pheasant family. Once widespread across much of North America, it now occupies a more limited range.
J K Riggs of Texas A and M will judge the Hill Country District Livestock Judging Contest at Fitzsimmons Ranch Llano County on Saturday. 13 FFA and 4 H teams from seven counties including Mason Blanco Gillespie Kendall Burnet Kerr and Llano will compete with 64 entries across six livestock classes and two beef grading classes. John Dodgen Fitzsimons Ranch manager chairs the event with H A Fitzsimons of San Antonio donating a beef for the barbecue dinner.
Stock certificates for the Country Club of Austin Building Corporation are ready to issue. Felix Reeves, president, said the certificates are at Capital National Bank with John Burns and must be signed by each subscriber. With 317 shares already subscribed, construction on the club house, swimming pool and other improvements should start about May 15.
Robbie Ellis was elected president of the Cedar Creek Roping Club at a reorganization meeting in the Community Center. Floyd Martin was chosen secretary-treasurer. Committees will be named at the next meeting Wednesday.
Injunctions were issued Friday in 126th District Court to halt the sale of two rural Leander School District buildings. The superintendent and several trustees did not contest. The Fairview and Rock Mountain schools, unused for classroom purposes since joining the district, were cited as meeting places. Residents sued after bids were requested, arguing the structures serve general meeting use alongside schooling.
A historical assertion notes that during Columbus’s time some South and Central American peoples reached levels of culture nearly equal to those of ancient Egypt and Babylon.
Gonzales Texas March 18 A bond and tax election is set for March 24 by the Gonzales Independent School District board led by president C T Traeger. The vote asks 325000 for four new buildings adding 12 classrooms and offices, a lunch room and assembly hall, expanded cafeterias and offices, an auditorium gym for Edwards Negro school, and 2000 seats with bus facilities at Apache Field.
The San Antonio Symphony conducted by Max Reiter will broadcast coast to coast at 2 p.m. on March 26 in NBC's new orchestral series Pioneers of Music. The program showcases the orchestra in a nationwide telecast from San Antonio.
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