The War on Poverty A Hometown Fight Opens Programs
At a Lions Club gathering Mr. Fausto Toscano of Gov. Connally’s staff outlined Community Action plans to fight local poverty. Proposed measures include special education and fitness services, with a town meeting set for Saturday March 27 at 8 p.m. in the Wilson County Courthouse. Officials and residents from Karnes and Atascosa Counties plan to attend.
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Lions Club
Fausto Toscano
John Connally
Set Ieechee Cal
Wilson County
Karnes County
Atascosa
Wilbert Teltschik Named President of 1965 Peanut Festival
Wilbert Teltschik named festival president as local organizations convened at the Courthouse on March 22 1965. The Path Track team posted multiple records at Taft Aransas Pass and Pearsall with Gerald Keller shining in sprint and discus events. Path baseball stood 3 1 in the S W Rural High School tournament hopefuls.
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Wilbert Teltschik
Taft
Aransas Pass
Pearsall
Gerald Keller
Araneae
Chak Thay Dannsas Pearsall
Path
Yorktown
S. W
Secretary-Treasury
James E. Edmonds
Court House
Sunnyside Community Plans To Repair Former School Building
Sunnyside residents and former residents met Sunday March 2 at the School house to discuss repairs and to organize drive on donations. Temporary officers were elected and a future meeting set for April 11 at 2:00 PM at the School House urging attendance from former students and teachers.
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Sunnyside
First Quarter Ends in 1965 ACP Program
The First Quarter of the 1965 ACP program closes March 31 with many approvals still outstanding. Agencies must report complete actions or request extensions of time where necessary to meet compliance.
Feed Grain Sign Up Ends March 26 in Wilson County
Wilson County producers are reminded that the final date to sign a 1985 Feed Grain Agreement is Friday, March 26, 1965. The program is voluntary and combines corn, grain sorghums, and barley in a single base. Participating farms qualify for diverted acreage payments and price support payments and are eligible for price support loans. Contact your ASC office for last minute details.
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ASC
Floresville Banquet to Feature Cayce Moore Speaker
Floresville chamber plans for a March banquet at the Catholic Parish with Cayce Moore the Hearne barber as featured speaker. The event promotes Floresville and Wilson County peanuts as Johnson and Connally spotlight regional peanut campaigns. WOAI in San Antonio will prize a Nutty Story and Joke Contest using Floresville peanut products.
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Texas
Cayce Moore
Floresville
Wati Floresville
Johnson
Connally
Governor Y
Eastern Star entertains the Masons at spaghetti supper
Fioresville Chapter No. 271 C.E.S. of which Mrs. Nina Rutledge is Worthy Matron entertained members of the Masonic Lodge and their wives at a spaghetti supper in the Methodist Church recreation room. Eastern Star officers assisted Mr Rutledge in preparation.
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Fioresville
C.E.S
Nina Rutledge
Masonic Lodge
Methodist Church
Eastern Star
Rutledge
Yorktown Western Days Festival Opens With Coronation
Yorktown celebrates its ninth Western Days starting Friday night with Queen coronation at the high school auditorium. U S Senator Ralph Yarborough plans to join the Saturday parade. Events include a community hall dance, old fiddler contest, parade, rodeos at Mueller Rodeo Arena, barbecue at Hermann Sons Hall, and a Sunday rodeo finale.
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Coronation
Yorktown
Kroy IV
U. S
Ralph Yarborough
Tony Schmidt
Sheron Ledbetter
Joe Hives
Mueller Rodeo Arena
Hermann Sons Hall
Holidays Set The Floresville Chamber of Commerce
The Floresville Chamber schedules a four day observance beginning April 16 with closures around the July 4 holiday. Activities include limited hours from 12:30 PM and shifts to Monday observances on July 5, with the week extended into a sixth day.
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Floresville
Floresville Band Triumph At Sam Houston High Contest
The Floresville band directed by Charles Dorrien traveled to the Concert and Sight-reading Contest at Sam Houston High School in San Antonio on March 19. They performed Burnished Brass Alleluia and Themes from Symphony No. Six, earning a top concert rating and a first sight-reading. Despite a marching score of two, the group remains proud of its ratings and aims for three ones next year.
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Floresville
Charles Dorrien
Sam Houston High School
San Antonio
Home Bible Study Course Offered
A free undenominational home Bible study course is offered entirely by mail to interested readers. Read the ad in this week's Chron and mail to Know Your Bible Campaign, P. Box 398, Floresville, Texas.
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Know Your Bible Campaign
Floresville
Texas
Schreiner Men’s Glee Club Set to Perform in Kerrville
The Schreiner Institute Men’s Glee Club of Kerrville Texas will present a program of familiar sacred and secular choruses at the Wiley Seale Auditorium in Floresville on Tuesday morning March 30 beginning at 11 a.m. The public is invited to attend.
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Schreiner Institute
Kerrville
Texas
Wiley Seale Auditorium
Fioresville
Oil firms plan 3000-foot Wilson County wildcat
M. E. Douglas and Parker Oil and Gas Co of San Antonio will drill their No 1 J. G. Cone as a 3000 foot wildcat in Wilson County along a northeast northwesterly line. Flournoy Production Co and Royal Oil and Gas Corp No 1 Charles L Hawkins Atascosa County facility logs indicate activity near the SHORT SWAB area.
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M. E. Douglas and
Parker Oil and Gas Co
San Antonio
J. G. Cone
Wilson County
Promotion for Corpus Christi Deputy Clerk Wright
Mrs. Carolyn R Wright is named resident deputy clerk in charge of the Corpus Christi Division by V Bailey Thomas clerk of the U S District Court. She replaces Frances Connally who resigns after 26 years. Wright a Floresville High School 1956 graduate and San Antonio Draughon’s alumna.
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V. Bailey Thomas
U. S. District Court
Southern District of Texas
Carolyn R Wright
Corpus Christi
Frances Connally
Wright
Floresville High School
J. A
Abe) Richardson
Route 4
Floresville
Wynn Seale Wright
Tom Wright
Fairview
Screwworm Fund Drive Set To Begin In Wilson County
The Wilson County Screwworm Eradication Committee plans a county drive to raise 300000 from Texas livestock interests for the Screwworm Eradication Program. The campaign runs March 29 to April 12, with a kickoff March 26 in Austin by county chairmen.
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Wilson County
Texas Livestock Industry
Texas
Austin
Miss Jaeggli Named Queen's Escort at Poteet Festival
Barbara Jaeggli, a Floresville High School senior and Floresville Chamber of Commerce representative, will represent C of C in the Queen's Coronation and Parade at the Poteet Strawberry Festival April 9. She sits Beta Club 4 years, Spanish Club 3 years, secretary 1964-65, band 5 years, and choral club 3 years, with Harry Ehlers as escort.
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Barbara
Bobbie” Jaeggli
Floresville High School
J. T. Jaeggli
Harry Ehlers
Marvin Ehlers
Jaeggli
Choral Club
Oil wells listed in Texas oil fields drilling report
6 800 feet Thursday on the John W. Pace Houston and Blair Vree land. Corpus Christi No 1 G A Lawrance McMullen County wild cat 15 miles southwest of Calliham. The Daubert Oil and Gas Co No 1 M L Tom Atascosa County Wil-
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John W. Pace
Houston
Blair-Vreeland
Corpus Christi
G. A. Lawrance
McMullen County
Calliham
Daubert Oil & Gas Co
M. L. Tom
Atascosa County
Wil
Five Kosciusko Ladies At S A Catholic Women Convention
Five Kosciusko members attended the 19th Annual Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women convention at the Gunter Hotel in March 2021 hosted by the Our Lady of Guadalupe District Council. The event featured a Vatican II renewal theme, a keynote by Bishop Stephen A. Leven, and a luncheon address by Sister Mary Vincent, with five committee conferences on Christian renewal.
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Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women
Gunter Hotel
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Christian Renewal
Stephen A. Leven
San Antonio
Mary Vincent
Santa Rosa Medical Center
Birthday dinner honors many area residents
Mrs Ed Eppinette hosted a Sunday turkey dinner honoring the birthdays of Mrs J H Ewing Mrs T S Cheever and Mr J C Talley Attendees included Corpus Christi residents Mrs Ella Kinsey Mrs J F Staff Mrs J W Einkauf Christine Einkauf and Janice Einkauf plus San Antonio visitors Mrs T S Cheever Larry Cheever Pat Moore Mr and Mrs L J Chiasson Sutherland Springs Mr and Mrs J C Talley Floresville and Mr and Mrs J H Ewing Floresville.
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Ed Eppinette
J. H. Ewing
T. S. Cheever
J. C. Talley
Ella Kinsey
J. F. Staff
J W. Einkauf
Christine Einkauf
Janice Einkauf
Corpus Christi
Larry Cheever
Pat Moore
L. J. Chiasson
San Antonio
Sutherland Springs
Floresville
Mr Irvin Creech Recovering After Minor Surgery
Mr Irvin Creech is in Baptist Memorial Hospital San Antonio where he underwent minor surgery Tuesday morning. He was reported resting comfortably Wednesday morning. His children J R Creech of Houston Richard I Creech of Angleton and Mrs S L Powell of Pasadena were at his bedside on Tuesday and returned to their homes on Wednesday.
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Irvin Creech
Baptist Memorial Hospital
San Antonio
J. R. Creech
Houston
Richard I. Creech
Angleton
S. L. Powell
Pasadena
Final Reports on Wilson County March of Dimes Drive
Wilson County drives report totals from J H Bain Stockdale $181.30 and Pandora $135.00 from Mesdames Ford Ware and L L Holstein. C W Linne La Vernia reports $358.00 including $121.60 from March of Mothers led by Elsie Ferry. La Vernia School Drive raises $104.00. Linne also bands $133. Donations pending from other communities and individuals.
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J. H. Bain
Stockdale
Mesdames Ford Ware
L. L. Holstein
Pandora
C. W. Linne
la Vernia
Elsie Ferry
Jerome Rohan
Linne
Wilson County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson County Peanut Facts Justify Boost
Wilson County ASC manager Edward Reed provides figures on the 1965 peanut allotment at 19059 acres, slightly below 1964’s 19200. 1964 yields averaged 757 pounds per acre or 25 bushels, with total county proceeds around 1,301,070 dollars at about 3 dollars per bushel. This data excludes substantial peanut hay income.
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Edward Reed
Wilson County
ASC
Funeral Services For Mrs Martha Jane Michael
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at Goetz Funeral Home Chapel in Seguin for Mrs Martha Jane Michael 82 of La Vernia Interment followed in Concrete Cemetery She died suddenly at p m Wednesday March 17 after a heart attack A complete obituary will follow in next week's Chronicle Journal
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Goetz Funeral Home
Seguin
Martha Jane Michael
la Vernia
Con
Crete
Michael
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