Wilson County Judge Proclaims Soil Conservation Week 1968
Wilson County Judge D R Voges signs a Soil Conservation Week proclamation with local officials and speakers stressing conservation of soil water and wildlife. The text notes 184 districts covering most land, the role of landowners, and the aim to improve land use for lasting living standards. Also mentions Jeanie Woolsey's second place in Picture Memory and an omission correction from last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L B. Ray
Wilson Co. Soil Conservation District
Kirt Hartmann
Stewardship Comm
Stanlegy Toeppich
Alex Richter
Sisdr
Soil Conservation Districts
Texas
Jeanie Woolsey
June Woolsey
Bridge Widening Contract Let for Loop Highway 181
A Texas Highway Department meeting announced a contract award of 123,361.73 to Texas Bridge Company, Inc. to widen four bridges on Loop Highway 181 from Floresville area, with work starting May 20, 1968 and finishing by September 1968. Traffic will remain open with heavy caution and barricades through the work zone. Representatives from the Texas Highway Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, Wilson County Sheriff’s Department, and the contractor attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
Ricester Creek
Seguin Branch
Lodi Creek
Pajarito Creek
Texas Highway Department
Texas Department of Public Safety
Sheriff's Department
Exas Highway Department
Texas Bridge Company, Inc
Austin
Texas
Gene H. Koch
Edgard L. Ramey
Leslie W. Baumann
Rudy Rodriguez
Wilson County
Wind Sweeps Floresville With 75 mph Gusts and Flooding
Last Friday's showers and hail preceded a Saturday morning tornadic wind event in Floresville. Gusts possibly reached 75 mph, driving heavy rain through cracks, darkening the sky, and uprooting trees while downtown Floresville businesses faced brief high water and damaged property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
Roger Bell
Wuppermann
Svoboda
Loop 181
Trujillo
Vinyard Funeral Home
Hoelscher Warehouse
Nursing Home
Pamela Connally Crowned Junior Mai Fest Duchess of Texas
Pamela Connally daughter of Wayne and Kay Connally was chosen as the Junior Mai Fest Duchess representing Texas. A May 10 parade in Brenham featured her float with a Lone Star motif and escort Chip Routt. The coronation that evening honored her bow to the audience in the Court of Play time Pleasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamela Connally
Wayne
Kay Connally
State of Texas
Brenham
Pamela
Chip" Routt
Federal Grant for Liber Library At Floresville Approved
Federal grant of 16053 dollars will aid build a county library in Floresville named Sam Fore Jr. Memorial Library. With 32266 from HEW and 32214 county match, total cost reaches 80533 dollars, funding public meeting rooms reading space and a traveling bookmobile to serve rural areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liber
Floresville
Washington
Department of Commerce
Abraham Karen
Wilson County
Sam Fore Jr
Rial
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Karen
Ject
Memorial Day Services for All Faiths at Memorial Hospital
Memorial Day services for all faiths will be held at the entrance of Memorial Hospital Floresville on May 30 with a planned martial music segment from 11 20 to 11 40 am. Services run from 1 40 pm to 12 00 noon with taps at noon as Boy Scouts raise the flag. Participants include Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Cubs and Brownies in uniform. The April 10 1960 hospital dedication honors Floresville and Wilson County residents who gave their lives for their country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Floresville
Wilson County
Graduates With Top Honors
R L Eschenburg son of Mrs Clifford Grey passed his Bar Exams in Austin last week. He ranked sixth in his SMU class of 270 with 222 successful. He joined the order of COIF for top ten. He received a year sabbatical to U S Law Week worth 140 dollars for most improved grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Eschenburg
Clifford Grey
Austin
SMU
Order of Coif
Feud Blamed for Floresville Shooting
Wilson County deputies linked a family feud to a Sunday Floresville shooting that left Cruz Aguirre, 45, hospitalized after a 4:30 p.m. incident at the A and 3rd Street intersection near the school cafeteria. Ercilia Mendoza, 24, of Floresville, was arraigned on assault to murder with bond set at 1000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson County
Justice of the Peace
Manuel Toscano
Ercilia Mendoza
Floresville
Wilson
Asa Fuller, Jr
Rudy Rodriguez
Wilson County Names Public Health Nurse
Miss Martha Artus, a registered nurse, becomes Wilson County Public Health Nurse working with school nurses, Day Care Centers, the County Health Officer and TB region staff. She will cover maternity, child health, crippled children, mental health, cancer, heart disease, dental health and immunization programs, including preschool and school immunizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Artus
Wilson County
Miss Artus
TB Control Region
Dr. Glenn Coates Elected to AAGP Honors
Dr. Glenn Coleman Coates of 1303 Hospital Boulevard has been elected to active membership in the American Academy of General Practice. The AAGP, founded in 1947, is a national body of more than 30 000 family doctors. Members must complete 150 hours of postgraduate study every three years to stay current.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Coleman Coates
Hospital Boulevard
American Academy of General Practice
AAGP
Coates
Absentee Voting Opens at County Clerk Office
Absentee voting begins Wednesday May 22 at the County Clerk's office and runs through Tuesday May 28, inclusive. Voters away on June 1, the secondary primary date, should cast ballots during the period.
Poth High School Baccalaureate Services May 1968
Poth High School prepares a baccalaureate service on Sunday May 19 1968 at 8 00 PM The program includes processional Hymn of Faith invocation scripture and anthem Gloria from the Twelfth Mass Sermon benediction and Holy Holy Holy with Rev Brian Crookes pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church assisting The text notes public health aims to immunize children against measles and other diseases with Gov Connally backing a strong state drive toward a measles free community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connally
State Health Department
Wilson County
Betty J. Com
Ee Besser
Mozart Seene
Brian Crookes
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Hoelscher's Floresville Water Damage Furniture Sale
Water damaged furniture and bedding are offered at a downtown Floresville location. Damaged items are on display at the building beside Maxines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoelscher’s
Floresville
Maxines
Rainfall totals on Newman farm near Floresville
For four weeks ending Monday the A. E. Newman farm, four miles northwest of Floresville, recorded 104 inches of rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Newman
Floresville
Carlean's Dairy Dream Installs New KooLee Ice Drink
Carlean's Dairy Dream installs a KooLee machine offering two flavors using Coca Cola syrup and red strawberry syrup. The advance brings big city style refreshments to the local area for the approaching summer season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlean
Dairy Dream
One-Eyed Jack Winner Despite Fantastic Odds
Floresville report details a one-eyed Jack who won against odds exceeding 100,000 to one. The piece recounts a stallion mating with a Jenny, leading to a rare offspring and notes the rough handling and strange remarks during delivery as discussed with Altgelt and Millikin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Moczygemba
Floresville
Jack
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Pamela Connally Grand Duchess
Glenn Coates
Developments In Medicine
The
Medical Association
Poth High School
Betty J. Corn
Mark Lehnhoff
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Gluck
Carlean’s
Altge
Millikin
Bill
Vora
jAltgelt
Bill Millikin
Franklins
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