None Hurt as Plane Cracks Up at Taylor
Taylor, Oct. 3. Rue ben Fuentes, pilot of the Taylor Civil Air Patrol, escaped injury when his plane crashed on landing at Taylor field. Mechanical failure of the retractable landing gear blamed. Fuentes and two observers, previously scanning for a downed National Guard craft, were uninjured despite a smashed propeller.
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Rueben Fuentes
Taylor Civil Air Patrol
Taylor Field
Fuentes
National Guard
Hare Group To Hear Wildlife Specialist
Taylor Oct. 3. R F Callender wildlife specialist from Texas A M College will speak at the Hare Wildlife Cooperative Association meeting at the Hare School Thursday at 7 30 p m. The association protects game birds especially quail and has more than 30 members with Ed Geibel as president.
Ranchman Charles Feuge First in Gillespie Tax Line
Fredericksb urg Gillespie County opens 1949 tax season with Charles Feuge of Klein Frank Eich community boing the first taxpayer in the county for more than twenty years. State and county levies rise with a 30 cent state tax increase and higher school and road funds. In Fredericksburg taxes rise to 40 928 90 with a 1 dollar rate. In Lockhart Mrs Ben Forister becomes another early payer.
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Gillespie County
Charles Feuge
Klein Frankeich
Feuge
William Petmecky
Fredericksburg
Harper District
Klein Branch
Willow City
Tosca
Lockhart
Ben Forister
Lytton Springs
William R. Bellamy
Taylor Helps Community Chest With One Day Meter Receipts
In Taylor, citizens vote to dedicate all parking meter receipts for a single Saturday, Oct 5, to the Community Chest drive for $13,250. The plan designates that day as the peak giving effort with receipts from meters going into the fund.
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Taylor
Community Chest
Paige Postmaster Examination Slated
GIDDINGS October 3 The United States Civil Service Commission announced an open competitive examination to fill the Paige Post Office postmaster vacancy.
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Giddings
United States Civil Service Commission
Paige
Slogan Originator Hila Weathers to Leave San Marcos Chamber
Mrs. Hila Euclid Weathers will step down Wednesday after nine years as manager of the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce. She fostered the slogan San Marcos The Gateway to the Hills and helped establish the San Marcos Air Forces Base while aiding the arrival of four industrial plants. She was the first woman manager of a Texas chamber and held multiple leadership roles in state and regional chambers. Her successors plan a vacation before resuming work with the Southern division of the US Chamber of Commerce.
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Hila Euclid Weathers
Chamber
San Marcos Air Forces Base
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Texas Chamber of Commerce Managers Association
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Southern Association of Chamber of Commerce
American Chamber of Commerce
Weathers
Hill Country
US Chamber of Commerces
Sweetwater
West Texas
Crockett
Carlsbad
Colorado
Mrs. Weathers
Sherman
Ice Berg Reeves
Grayson County
Austin
Hila Euclid
Ice Berg
J. W. Persons
California
Ann Dvorak
Randolph Scott
Abilene
Game Party Raises Funds for County Youth Fair
Smithville report notes local county youth fair officials cleared 87 at a game party held Saturday. Proceeds will help cover about 2100 in expenses for the County Youth Fair to be staged in January with Bastrop Elgin and Smithville sharing costs equally.
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Smithville
Bastrop
Elgin
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